CVE-2002-1970

CVE-2002-1970 describes a vulnerability in SnortCenter 0.9.5 where, during the process of pushing Snort rules, it creates temporary files with world-readable and world-writable permissions. This flaw allows local users to access sensitive information, specifically usernames and passwords for alert database servers. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.