CVE-2000-0676: Netscape Communicator

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 20.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netscape Communicator and Navigator 4.04 through 4.74 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by using a Java applet to open a connection to a URL using the "file", "http", "https", and "ftp" protocols, as demonstrated by Brown Orifice.

Affected products

• Netscape Communicator: version 4.0 only; version 4.04 only; version 4.05 only; version 4.5 only; version 4.5_beta only; version 4.06 only; …

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.