CVE-2000-1182

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WatchGuard Firebox II allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by flooding the Firebox with a large number of FTP or SMTP requests, which disables proxy handling.

Published: 2001-01-09 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2000-1182 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.76%). Core evidence: 1 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-2000-1182

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2000-1182

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 0.92% 1.76% +0.85%
2 2025-03-17 0.81% 0.92% +0.11%
3 2024-12-17 0.81%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2000-1182

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-2000-1182

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2000-1182

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
watchguard firebox_ii 4.1 cpe:2.3:h:watchguard:firebox_ii:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
watchguard firebox_ii 4.5 cpe:2.3:h:watchguard:firebox_ii:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2000-1182

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