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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2002-0211 json

Race condition in the installation script for Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.01 through 3.20 creates a world-writeable temporary "gunzip" progra…

published 2002-05-16 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0208

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Race condition in the installation script for Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.01 through 3.20 creates a world-writeable temporary "gunzip" program before executing it, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the program before it is executed.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21244)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21244 Tarantella Enterprise 3 - gunzip Race Condition local, 2002-02-08
  • online.securityfocus.com http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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