CVE-2000-0459

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2000-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

IMP does not remove files properly if the MSWordView application quits, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by filling up the disk space by requesting a large number of documents and prematurely stopping the request.

Affected products

Imp: 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.2_pre9, 2.2_pre10, 2.2_pre11 (+1)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=95672120116627&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1361
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=95672120116627&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1361

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