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CVE-2002-1594

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected products

• Grpck: all versions
• Pwck: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100999352406822&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=100998205010794&w=2
• http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/121891
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877811
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7857
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7859
• http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100999352406822&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=100998205010794&w=2
• http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/121891
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877811

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