CVE-2000-0941
Kootenay Web KW Whois 1.0 CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "whois"…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 13.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Kootenay Web KW Whois 1.0 CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "whois" parameter.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Kootenay Web Inc whois 1.0 - Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20370remote, cgipublished 29 Oct 2000Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 59 days later
· 59 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.5% · top 3.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 1883 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- kw-whois-meta(5438) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20001029 Re: Remote command execution via KW Whois 1.0 (addition) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20001029 Remote command execution via KW Whois 1.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.kootenayweb.bc.ca/scripts/whois.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2000-0928 (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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