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CVE-2002-1245
Maped in LuxMan 0.41 uses the user-provided search path to find and execute the gzip program, which allows local users to modify /dev/mem…
High7.2EPSS 0.46%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Maped in LuxMan 0.41 uses the user-provided search path to find and execute the gzip program, which allows local users to modify /dev/mem and gain privileges via a modified PATH environment variable that points to a Trojan horse gzip program.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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)
- 0.46% · top 60% 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 (6)
- DSA-189 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20021106 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.06.02: Non-Explicit Path Vulnerability in LuxMan (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.06.02.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- luxman-maped-read-memory(10549) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20021106 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.06.02: Non-Explicit Path Vulnerability in LuxMan (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 6113 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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