Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0211

RCE

Title: Tarantella Enterprise installation script race condition local RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2002-0211

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 16, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.89%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0211: Race condition in the installation script for Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.01 through 3.20 creates a world-writeable temporary "gunzip" program before executing it, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the program before it is executed.

Impacted Vendors

tarantella 1

oracle 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101208650722179&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7996.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3966 http://www.tarantella.com/security/bulletin-04.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101208650722179&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7996.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3966 http://www.tarantella.com/security/bulletin-04.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0211 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21244

View Code

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:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.