CVE-2002-0824 describes a symlink attack vulnerability in BSD pppd (point-to-point protocol daemon) affecting FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to modify permissions of arbitrary files by manipulating a tty device file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access and medium attack complexity, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freebsd:point-to-point_protocol_daemon:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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