Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0311

Title: UnixWare/Open UNIX webtop shell metacharacter injection privilege escalation

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2002-0311

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 31, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0311: Vulnerability in webtop in UnixWare 7.1.1 and Open UNIX 8.0.0 allows local and possibly remote attackers to gain root privileges via shell metacharacters in the -c argument for (1) in scoadminreg.cgi or (2) service_action.cgi.

Impacted Vendors

novell 1

caldera 1

Reference Links

ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openunix/CSSA-2002-SCO.6/CSSA-2002-SCO.6.txt http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/251747 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7977.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3936 ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openunix/CSSA-2002-SCO.6/CSSA-2002-SCO.6.txt http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/251747 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7977.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3936

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0311 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21239

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 31, 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.