Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0080

Title: rsync daemon setgroups privilege dropping bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0080.

CWE Category CWE-269
Published Date Mar 15, 2002
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0080: rsync, when running in daemon mode, does not properly call setgroups before dropping privileges, which could provide supplemental group privileges to local users, who could then read certain files that would otherwise be disallowed.

Impacted Vendors

R
rsync 1
A
andrew_tridgell 1
S
samba 1
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2002-014.1.txt http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8463.php http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-024.php3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-026.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4285 http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2002-014.1.txt http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8463.php http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-024.php3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-026.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4285
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0080 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.