CVE-2000-0844

highpriority · attend · 55EPSS 0.156 · 97 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

11 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

15.6% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

75 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.

cvss

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

10.0

010

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

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

exploits (11)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-197Solaris/SPARC 2.7 / 7 locale - Format Stringfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-20185RedHat 6 GLIBC/locale - Subsystem Format Stringfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-20186Solaris 2.6/7.0 /locale - Subsystem Format Stringfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-20187Immunix OS 6.2 - LC glibc format stringfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-20188Solaris 2.6/7.0 'eject' locale - Subsystem Format Stringfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-20189Libc locale - Local Privilege Escalation (1)functional · exploit_db

affected products (75)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
caldera openlinuxall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
caldera openlinux ebuilder= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:caldera:openlinux_ebuilder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
caldera openlinux eserver= 2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux_eserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
conectiva linux= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
conectiva linux= 4.0esnvdUScpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
conectiva linux= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
conectiva linux= 4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
conectiva linux= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
conectiva linux= 5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian linux= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian linux= 2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian linux= 2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian linux= 2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 3.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 3.2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2000-11-14modified 2026-06-16

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references (22)

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