Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-2002-0573
Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.092 (95.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.092 · newest: 0.092 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
- Sun Sunos — versions 5.7, 5.8
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4639 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/638099 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:79 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/778 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:41 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-10.html (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/270268 (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, Patch)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/8971.php (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0049.html (mailing-list)