CVE-2000-0931 — Buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail 3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long email message containing binary data

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Buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail 3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long email message containing binary data

Published Nov 29, 2000

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.03%

Description

Buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail 3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long email message containing binary data.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.03% 0.02030

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

EPSS probability 0.02030

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	2.03% (0.02030)	80.32th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.03% (0.02030)	78.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.99% (0.00986)	75.26th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.75% (0.00750)	81.66th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.75% (0.00750)	80.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.75% (0.00750)	78.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/137518
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1750
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/137518		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1750		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor 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-2000-0931

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2000-0931

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2000-0931