CVE-2000-0973: Daniel Stenberg Curl

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 18.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl earlier than 6.0-1.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.

Affected products

• Daniel Stenberg Curl: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.1beta only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only; …

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.