CVE-2000-0476

Exp

xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

Published: 2000-06-01 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2000-0476 is rated Exploit Available (59/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.53%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2000-0476

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
19984 exploit_db edb 2000-05-31 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2000-0476

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 9.50% 2.53% -6.98%
2 2026-01-27 11.15% 9.50% -1.65%
3 2025-11-13 — 11.15% —

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2000-0476

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2000-0476

OS Trackers for CVE-2000-0476

vendor priority summary link
suse low — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2000-0476/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2000-0476

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
michael_jennings eterm 0.8.10 cpe:2.3:a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
putty putty 0.48 cpe:2.3:a:putty:putty:0.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rxvt rxvt 2.6.1 cpe:2.3:a:rxvt:rxvt:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xfree86_project x11r6 3.3.3 cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xfree86_project x11r6 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2000-0476

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