CVE-2000-0353 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from a malicious web server, which is then executed by Pine.

Published: 2000-07-12

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: 3.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:3.98:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.10:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2000-0352	Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from a malicious web server, which is then executed by Pine.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03361.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/pine_update_announcement.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_6.html
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/HHP-Pine_remote_exploit.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1247

History

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Subscriptions

University Of Washington Pine

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-07-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:14:21.499Z

Reserved: 2000-05-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0353

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-06-28T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0353

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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