VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-0557

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-07-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user's shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user's directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval().

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