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CVE-2002-1594
Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users…
High7.2EPSS 0.97%
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.97% · top 38% of all CVEs (3 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
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- VU#877811 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- VU#121891 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- grpck-command-line-bo(7857) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020102 blackshell3: multiple pwck/grpck vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- pwck-command-line-bo(7859) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20020102 Re: [VulnWatch] blackshell3: multiple pwck/grpck vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEVx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .