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CVE-2002-0557

Published

21 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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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()..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: High
Base Score: 7.5/10
Exploit Score: 10/10
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:::::::*	Yes	-	-

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.php
http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approval