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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2002-0162 json

LogWatch before 2.5 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the logwatch temporary directory.

published 2002-03-27 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0161

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

LogWatch before 2.5 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the logwatch temporary directory.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-0162 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:053
  • Red Hat Powertools 6.2 Red Hat Powertools 7.0 Red Hat Powertools 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:054

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21356)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

0.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21356 LogWatch 2.1.1/2.5 - Insecure Temporary Directory Creation local, 2002-03-27

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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