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Daniel Stenberg Curl

CVE-2000-0973

Buffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl earlier than 6.0-1.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.

What this means for your business

  • It affects Daniel Stenberg Curl. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
  • Code showing how to exploit it has been published, but real attacks have not been confirmed.
  • An attacker can use it remotely, over a network.
  • FIRST's prediction model gives it a 18% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 97% of all known flaws.

What to do

  1. 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Daniel Stenberg Curl, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
  2. 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.

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Scoring

CVSS
10.0 (v2.0)
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Assigned by
cve@mitre.org

Dates

Published
2000-12-19
Last modified
2026-09-23
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Daniel Stenberg Curl6.0, 6.1, 6.1beta, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.2, 7.2.1, 7.3, 7.4

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

References