CVE-2002-1199

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The getdbm procedure in ypxfrd allows local users to read arbitrary files, and remote attackers to read databases outside /var/yp, via a directory traversal and symlink attack on the domain and map arguments.

Affected products

Caldera Openlinux: 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Sco Openserver: 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.6a
Sun Solaris: 9.0
Sunos: 5.7, 5.8

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103426842025029&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47903
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10329.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/538033
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5937
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2423
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103426842025029&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47903
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10329.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/538033

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