CVE-2002-0678

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-07-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CDE ToolTalk database server (ttdbserver) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the transaction log file used by the _TT_TRANSACTION RPC procedure.

Affected products

Caldera Openunix: 8.0
Caldera Unixware: 7.0, 7.1.0, 7.1.1
Compaq Tru64: 4.0f, 4.0g, 5.0a, 5.1, 5.1a
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 10.10, 10.20, 10.24, 11.00, 11.11
IBM AIX: 4.3.3, 5.1
Sgi Irix: 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.1, 6.2 (+19)
Sun Solaris: 2.6, 9.0
Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8
Xi Graphics Dextop: 2.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q3/0002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102635906423617&w=2
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-20.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9527.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/299816
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5083
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX0207-199
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A175
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2770
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A80

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