Vulnerability CVE-2000-0960


Published: 2000-12-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Netscape -> Messaging server 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97138100426121&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1787
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5364

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