CVE-2000-0489

lowpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.007 · 53 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

0.70% (53rd) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

15 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by creating a large number of socket pairs using the socketpair function, setting a large buffer size via setsockopt, then writing large buffers.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

2.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v2.01.9lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USLLM-inferredCWE-400USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-19488FreeBSD 5.0 / NetBSD 1.4.2 / OpenBSD 2.7 - 'setsockopt()' Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
freebsd freebsd= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd= 1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd= 1.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsd= 1.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openbsd openbsd= 2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openbsd openbsd= 2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openbsd openbsd= 2.7nvdUScpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 1999-09-05modified 2026-06-16

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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