CVE-2002-0157 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Nautilus versions 1.0.4 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack against the .nautilus-metafile.xml metadata file, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eazel:nautilus:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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