CVE-2000-0627: Blackboard Courseinfo

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BlackBoard CourseInfo 4.0 does not properly authenticate users, which allows local users to modify CourseInfo database information and gain privileges by directly calling the supporting CGI programs such as user_update_passwd.pl and user_update_admin.pl.

Affected products

• Blackboard Courseinfo: version 4.0 only; version unix only

Published 2000-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.