CVE-2002-0542
Published Jul 3, 2002
Last updated 8 years ago
Overview
- Description
- mail in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 processes a tilde (~) escape character in a message even when it is not in interactive mode, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via calls to mail in cron.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.2
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "AA6AEAF0-FA61-4A3F-A083-1218C2027781"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "60DA30A1-3360-46BC-85B7-008D535F95BE"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]