CVE-2000-0949

Exp

Heap overflow in savestr function in LBNL traceroute 1.4a5 and earlier allows a local user to execute arbitrary commands via the -g option.

Published: 2000-12-19 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2000-0949 is rated Exploit Available (57/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.19%). 5 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2000-0949

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
178 exploit_db edb 2000-11-15 Exploit-DB ↗
20252 exploit_db edb 2000-09-28 Exploit-DB ↗
20251 exploit_db edb 2000-09-28 Exploit-DB ↗
20250 exploit_db edb 2000-09-28 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2000-0949

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 2025-03-30 0.27% 0.19% -0.08%
2 2025-03-29 0.19% 0.27% +0.08%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.19% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2000-0949

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2000-0949

OS Trackers for CVE-2000-0949

vendor priority summary link
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2000-0949

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2000-0949

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
lbl lbl_traceroute 1.4a5 cpe:2.3:a:lbl:lbl_traceroute:1.4a5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun sunos 5.5.1 cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2000-0949

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