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CVE-2000-0993

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.7%
75.8th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
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Published 2000-12-19 · modified 2026-09-23

Description

Format string vulnerability in pw_error function in BSD libutil library allows local users to gain root privileges via a malformed password in commands such as chpass or passwd.

Affected

freebsd netbsd openbsd

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org