CVE-2000-0978

Big Brother Network Monitor vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

bbd server in Big Brother System and Network Monitor before 1.5c2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the "&" shell metacharacter.

Affected vendor

Bb4

Affected product

Big Brother Network Monitor

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2000-12-19

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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