CVE-2000-0284

Exp

Buffer overflow in University of Washington imapd version 4.7 allows users with a valid account to execute commands via LIST or other commands.

Published: 2000-04-16 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2000-0284 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.7/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 68.90%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 8 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2000-0284

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
16846 exploit_db edb 2010-03-26 Exploit-DB ↗
19847 exploit_db edb 2002-08-01 Exploit-DB ↗
397 exploit_db edb 2002-06-25 Exploit-DB ↗
284 exploit_db edb 2001-03-03 Exploit-DB ↗
253 exploit_db edb 2001-01-19 Exploit-DB ↗
19848 exploit_db edb 2000-04-16 Exploit-DB ↗
19849 exploit_db edb 2000-04-16 Exploit-DB ↗
10025 exploit_db edb 2000-04-16 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2000-0284

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 78.73% 68.90% -9.83%
2 2025-10-16 79.86% 78.73% -1.13%
3 2025-07-14 79.86%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2000-0284

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2000-0284

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2000-0284

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
university_of_washington imap 12.264 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:12.264:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2000-0284

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