CVE-2000-0076: Berkeley Nvi

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

nviboot boot script in the Debian nvi package allows local users to delete files via malformed entries in vi.recover.

Affected products

• Berkeley Nvi: version 1.7x only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.1 only

Published 1999-12-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.