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CVE-2002-0701
ktrace in BSD-based operating systems allows the owner of a process with special privileges to trace the process after its privileges have…
Low2.1EPSS 0.33%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
ktrace in BSD-based operating systems allows the owner of a process with special privileges to trace the process after its privileges have been lowered, which may allow the owner to obtain sensitive information that the process obtained while it was running with the extra privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 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 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 73% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- FreeBSD-SA-02:30 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- 5133 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openbsd-ktrace-gain-privileges(9474) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020627 009: SECURITY FIX: June 27, 2002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSDx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2002-0693 (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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