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CVE-2002-1838

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Charities.cron 1.0.2 through 1.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Steve Sachs Charities.Cron: 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.5.0, 1.6.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4869
• http://www.stevesachs.com/charities.cron_CHANGELOG
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4869
• http://www.stevesachs.com/charities.cron_CHANGELOG

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