Privilege escalation in Samba Rsync
CVE-2002-0080
rsync, when running in daemon mode, does not properly call setgroups before dropping privileges, which could provide supplemental group privileges to local users, who could then read certain files that would otherwise be disallowed.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (42.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Samba Rsync
- Red Hat Linux — versions 6.2, 7.0, 7.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/8463.php (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-024.php3 (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2002-014.1.txt (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4285 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-026.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Third Party Advisory)