Vulnerability in Openbsd
CVE-2002-0542
mail in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 processes a tilde (~) escape character in a message even when it is not in interactive mode, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via calls to mail in cron.
EPSS: 0.015 (72.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Openbsd — versions 2.9, 3.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)