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CVE-2002-0557

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.20%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2002-07-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2002-0557
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.20%

Original Filing — NVD 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().