CVE-2002-0557

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user's shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user's directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval().

Affected products

OpenBSD: 3.0

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.php
http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approval
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.php
http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approval
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338

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