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CVE-2002-0572

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by…

High7.2EPSS 1.6%
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Description

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2002-0572, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0High7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

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Affected products

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