CVE-2000-0918 — Format string vulnerability in kvt in KDE 1.1.2 may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a DISPLAY environmental variable that contains formatting characters

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HIGH

Format string vulnerability in kvt in KDE 1.1.2 may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a DISPLAY environmental variable that contains formatting characters

Published Nov 29, 2000

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.42%

Description

Format string vulnerability in kvt in KDE 1.1.2 may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a DISPLAY environmental variable that contains formatting characters.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.42% 0.00420

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00420

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.42% (0.00420)	33.95th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.42% (0.00420)	33.30th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.29th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	17.84th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 1, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	14.42th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00045)	12.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/83914
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1700
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/83914		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1700		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 29, 2000

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Nov 24, 2000

Link CVE-2000-0918

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Sep 23, 2026

Link CVE-2000-0918

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2000-0918