6.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2002-0162

Published: 27/03/2002 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 1.9
VMScore: 625
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

LogWatch prior to 2.5 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the logwatch temporary directory.

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4374/info LogWatch is a freely available, open source script for monitoring log files It may be used with the Linux and Unix Operating systems Upon execution, LogWatch creates a directory in /tmp This directory uses the name logwatch$pid, where $pid is the process id of the executing script The LogWat ...