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CVE-2000-0973 — HIGH severity vulnerability (Buffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl e)

Buffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl earlier than 6.0-1.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.

CVE IDCVE-2000-0973
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score10.0
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2000-12-19
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionBuffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl earlier than 6.0-1.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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