CVE-2002-2363 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in HP-UX 11.00, specifically within the VJE.VJE-RUN component. This flaw allows local users to gain elevated privileges due to the addition of "bin" to the /etc/PATH environment variable. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it presents a high severity risk, indicating a low attack complexity for a local attacker to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.