CVE-2002-2267 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in bogofilter version 0.9.0.4, specifically within the bogopass component. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, allowing them to overwrite that file when bogopass attempts to create a temporary file. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring local access and low attack complexity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bogofilter:bogopass_email_filter:0.9.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.