CVE-2002-1311 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Courier sqwebmail before 0.40.0 does not quickly drop privileges after startup in certain cases, which could allow local users to read arbitrary files.

Published: 2004-09-01

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

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:double_precision_incorporated:courier_mta:0.37.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:double_precision_incorporated:courier_mta:0.40:::::::*

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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-2002-1295	Courier sqwebmail before 0.40.0 does not quickly drop privileges after startup in certain cases, which could allow local users to read arbitrary files.

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://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103794021013436&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-197
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10643.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6189

History

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Subscriptions

Double Precision Incorporated Courier Mta

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:28.573Z

Reserved: 2002-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1311

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-11-29T05:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2002-1311

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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