CVE-2000-0638: Sean Macguire Big Brother

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bb-hostsvc.sh in Big Brother 1.4h1 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack on the HOSTSVC parameter.

Affected products

• Sean Macguire Big Brother: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3b only; version 1.4 only; …

Published 2000-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.