Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0157

Title: Nautilus symlink attack on .nautilus-metafile.xml

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0157.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 16, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0157: Nautilus 1.0.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .nautilus-metafile.xml metadata file.

Impacted Vendors

eazel 1

gnome 1

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0157 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 16, 2002 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:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.