CVE-2000-0960

medium

Description

The POP3 server in Netscape Messaging Server 4.15p1 generates different error messages for incorrect user names versus incorrect passwords, which allows remote attackers to determine valid users on the system and harvest email addresses for spam abuse.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5364

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97138100426121&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2000-12-19

Updated: 2017-10-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N