CVE-2002-0557 describes a vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0 when using YP with netgroups in the password database. This flaw can lead to rexec or rsh executing another user's shell, or atrun changing to a different user's directory, potentially due to memory allocation issues or an incorrect call to auth_approval(). With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, allowing for network-based attacks with low complexity, resulting in potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.