CVE-2000-0409: Netscape Communicator

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netscape 4.73 and earlier follows symlinks when it imports a new certificate, which allows local users to overwrite files of the user importing the certificate.

Affected products

• Netscape Communicator: version 4.5 only; version 4.6 only; version 4.7 only; version 4.51 only; version 4.61 only; version 4.72 only; …

Published 2000-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.