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CVE-2000-0353: University Of Washington Pine: Command injection

CVE-2000-0353 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects University Of Washington Pine. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability 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.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• University Of Washington Pine: 3.98; 4.0; 4.2; 4.10

References

• http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/HHP-Pine_remote_exploit.html
• 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.securityfocus.com/bid/1247