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CVE-2000-0294
Buffer overflow in healthd for FreeBSD allows local users to gain root privileges.
High7.2EPSS 0.40%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in healthd for FreeBSD allows local users to gain root privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 24 years later
· 24 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- FreeBSD-SA-00:12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- 606 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1107 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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