CVE-2002-0435
Published Jul 26, 2002
Last updated 16 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Race condition in the recursive (1) directory deletion and (2) directory move in GNU File Utilities (fileutils) 4.1 and earlier allows local users to delete directories as the user running fileutils by moving a low-level directory to a higher level as it is being deleted, which causes fileutils to chdir to a ".." directory that is higher than expected, possibly up to the root file system.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 1.2
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
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