CVE-2002-0137 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in CDRDAO versions 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symbolic link attack on the $HOME/.cdrdao configuration file. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, enabling a local attacker to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not listed on the KEV catalog, multiple exploit proofs-of-concept are publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:andreas_mueller:cdrdao:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:andreas_mueller:cdrdao:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.