CVE-2002-1915 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting multiple BSD-based operating systems, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. A local attacker can exploit this by using the flock() function to lock the /var/log/acculog file, preventing legitimate processes from accessing it. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, leading to a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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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.