CVE-2003-0124

Published Mar 18, 2003

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: man before 1.5l allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed man file with improper quotes, which causes the my_xsprintf function to return a string with the value "unsafe," which is then executed as a program via a system call if it is in the search path of the user who runs man.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.6
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

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      {
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            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C6255D5B-2C0B-491F-B5E0-77D1F0E5C0DB"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:andries_brouwer:man:1.5i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "1BA4BFF6-A90C-43FE-AE11-7494A588EBB0"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:andries_brouwer:man:1.5i2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "F6A56F3E-EA10-464B-ACD3-92B89471CA68"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:andries_brouwer:man:1.5j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "8390CF3E-84F0-4D79-9DF9-7A7F19DDFC2E"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:andries_brouwer:man:1.5k:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "DCD60C2A-A24C-40F1-8949-482B6A294DA7"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

References