CVE-2000-0908 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

BrowseGate 2.80 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via long Authorization or Referer MIME headers in the HTTP request.

Published: 2001-01-22

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 9.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:netcplus:browsegate:2.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2000-0895	BrowseGate 2.80 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via long Authorization or Referer MIME headers in the HTTP request.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.09741.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2000-q3/0128.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96956211605302&w=2
http://www.netcplus.com/browsegate.htm#BGLatest
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1702
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5270

History

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Subscriptions

Netcplus Browsegate

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-01-22T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:37:32.042Z

Reserved: 2000-11-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0908

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2000-12-19T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T21:52:44.407

Link: CVE-2000-0908

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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