VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-1594

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.97%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-01-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

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