CVE-2000-0960

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The POP3 server in Netscape Messaging Server 4.15p1 generates different error messages for incorrect user names versus incorrect passwords, which allows remote attackers to determine valid users on the system and harvest email addresses for spam abuse.

The POP3 server in Netscape Messaging Server 4.15p1 generates different error messages for incorrect user names versus incorrect passwords, which allows remote attackers to determine valid users on the system and harvest email addresses for spam abuse.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-19 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Netscape Netscape Messaging Server 4.15

4.15

References

20001011 Netscape Messaging server 4.15 poor error strings

1787

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

netscape-messaging-email-verify(5364)

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