CVE-2000-0963

highpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.007 · 52 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.69% (52nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

13 products

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.

cvss

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

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.1–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Csecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.06.1mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferredCWE-20USLLM-inferred

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 7fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 6.2fstec_bduRU
freebsd freebsd= 3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 3.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 4.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
immunix immunix= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
immunix immunix= 7.0_betanvdUScpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
invisible-island ncurses< 5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2000-12-19modified 2026-09-23

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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