CVE-2002-0157 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Nautilus 1.0.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .nautilus-metafile.xml metadata file.

Published: 2003-04-02

Score: 4.6 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:eazel:nautilus:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Linux 7.2
	cpe:/o:redhat:linux:7.2	RHSA-2002:064	2002-05-02T00:00:00Z

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0156	Nautilus 1.0.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .nautilus-metafile.xml metadata file.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00068.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/270691/2002-04-29/2002-05-05/0
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8995.php
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-064.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4373
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0157
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-0157

History

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Subscriptions

Eazel Nautilus

Redhat Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:42:27.591Z

Reserved: 2002-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0157

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-05-16T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0157

Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2002-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-0157 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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