HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2000-0622

Website Professional vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
12.7%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in Webfind CGI program in O'Reilly WebSite Professional web server 2.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a URL containing a long "keywords" parameter.
Affected vendor
Oreilly
Affected product
Website Professional
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2000-07-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2000-0622

  • Confirm whether Oreilly Website Professional is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2000-0622.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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