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CVE-2002-0169

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled, which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.

Affected products

• RedHat Docbook Stylesheets: 1.54.13
• RedHat Docbook Utils: 0.6.9-2, 0.6.13

References

• http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4095
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8983.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/5349
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-062.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4654
• http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4095
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8983.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/5349
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-062.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4654

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