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CVE-2002-0572
FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by…
High7.2EPSS 1.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- bsd-suid-apps-gain-privileges(8920) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 4568 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#809347 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 6095 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20020422 Pine Internet Advisory: Setuid application execution may give local root in FreeBSD (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- M-072 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- 20020422 Pine Internet Advisory: Setuid application execution may give local root in FreeBSD (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020423 cheers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2002-0572)Record last updated .