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CVE-2000-0442

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Qpopper 2.53 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a formatting string in the From: header, which is processed by the euidl command.

Affected products

• Qualcomm Qpopper: 2.52, 2.53
• Sun Cobalt Raq 2: all versions
• Sun Cobalt Raq 3I: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0267.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_51.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1242
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0267.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_51.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1242

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