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CVE-2000-0573

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 96.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The lreply function in wu-ftpd 2.6.0 and earlier does not properly cleanse an untrusted format string, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the SITE EXEC command.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 11.00

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0244.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0017.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96171893218000&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96179429114160&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96299933720862&w=2
• http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-020.0.txt
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-13.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-039.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1387

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