Vulnerability in Netscape Communicator
CVE-2000-0676
Netscape Communicator and Navigator 4.04 through 4.74 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by using a Java applet to open a connection to a URL using the "file", "http", "https", and "ftp" protocols, as demonstrated by Brown Orifice.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.205 (97.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.205 · newest: 0.205 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Netscape Communicator — versions 4.0, 4.04, 4.05
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0019.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1546 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0115.html (mailing-list)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0236.html (mailing-list)
- www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-027.1.txt (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0265.html (mailing-list)
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-15.html (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-054.html (vendor-advisory)