What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-1186

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in phf CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a large number of arguments and including a long MIME header.

Affected products

• Phf: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0221.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5970
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0221.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5970

Get alerted when CVE-2000-1186 or the next vulnerability affects your stack