CVE-2000-0676

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Netscape Communicator and Navigator 4.04 through 4.74 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by using a Java applet to open a connection to a URL using the "file", "http", "https", and "ftp" protocols, as demonstrated by Brown Orifice.

Affected products

Netscape Communicator: 4.0, 4.04, 4.05, 4.5, 4.5_beta, 4.06 (+8)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0019.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0115.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0236.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0265.html
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-027.1.txt
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-15.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-054.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1546
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0019.html

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