CVE-2000-0353

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1999-06-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from a malicious web server, which is then executed by Pine.

Affected products

University Of Washington Pine: 3.98, 4.0, 4.2, 4.10

References

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/pine_update_announcement.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_6.html
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/HHP-Pine_remote_exploit.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1247
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/pine_update_announcement.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_6.html
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/HHP-Pine_remote_exploit.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1247

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