CVE-2002-0542

N/A

Description

mail in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 processes a tilde (~) escape character in a message even when it is not in interactive mode, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via calls to mail in cron.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/3/2002

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

openbsd:openbsd

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101855467811695&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/267089(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8818.php(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#mail(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.osvdb.org/5269(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4495(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101855467811695&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/267089(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8818.php(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#mail(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/5269(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4495(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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