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

EPSS: 0.005 (41.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRAKE, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CALDERA, vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Patch, Third Party Advisory)