CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0973

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
18.08%

97th percentile - higher than 97% of all known CVEs

Summary

Earlier versions of curl (before 6.0-1.1) and curl-ssl (before 6.0-1.2) contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute remote code, potentially leading to serious security breaches in the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update curl and curl-ssl to version 6.0-1.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl earlier than 6.0-1.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS