VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-0760

CVSS score1.2 LOW

EPSS probability0.30%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2002-08-12

Last modified2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, decompresses files with world-readable permissions before setting the permissions to what is specified in the bzip2 archive, which could allow local users to read the files as they are being decompressed.