CVE-2002-0790 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM AIX. Specifically, the clchkspuser and clpasswdremote utilities inadvertently expose an encrypted password within the cspoc.log file. This flaw carries a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating that an attacker would require local access and the impact is limited to partial confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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