CVE-2002-0572 EXPLOIT
7.2
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 1.6% (pctl 74)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.2 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| EPSS | 1.55% — more likely to be exploited than 74% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2002-07-03 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (4)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| freebsd | freebsd |
| openbsd | openbsd |
| sun | solaris |
| sun | sunos |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Apple Mac OSX 10.x / FreeBSD 4.x / OpenBSD 2.x / Solaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 - 'exec C Library' Standard I/O File Descriptor Closure | 2002-04-23 |
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0033.html
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269102
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-072.shtml
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8920.php
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347
- http://www.osvdb.org/6095
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0033.html
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269102
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-072.shtml
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8920.php
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347
- http://www.osvdb.org/6095
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568
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