CVE-2000-0696: Sun Solaris ANSWERBOOK2

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The administration interface for the dwhttpd web server in Solaris AnswerBook2 does not properly authenticate requests to its supporting CGI scripts, which allows remote attackers to add user accounts to the interface by directly calling the admin CGI script.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris ANSWERBOOK2: version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only

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