cve-2000-0960
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-01-22 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:37
Severity ?
Summary
The POP3 server in Netscape Messaging Server 4.15p1 generates different error messages for incorrect user names versus incorrect passwords, which allows remote attackers to determine valid users on the system and harvest email addresses for spam abuse.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97138100426121&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1787Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5364
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97138100426121&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1787Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5364
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