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CVE-2003-1073
A race condition in the at command for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to delete arbitrary files via the -r argument with .. (dot…
Low1.2EPSS 0.69%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
A race condition in the at command for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to delete arbitrary files via the -r argument with .. (dot dot) sequences in the job name, then modifying the directory structure after at checks permissions to delete the file and before the deletion actually takes place.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Low1.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.69% · top 47% 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: Low 1.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 1005994 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0008-sun-at.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- solaris-at-race-condition(11180) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- solaris-at-directory-traversal(11179) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030127 Sun Microsystems Solaris at -r job name handling and race condition vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 20030127 Sun Microsystems Solaris at -r job name handling and race condition vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 7960 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 6693 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 6692 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- N-070 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- 50161 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_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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