Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0760

Title: bzip2 race condition world-readable files during decompression

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0760.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 12, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0760: Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, decompresses files with world-readable permissions before setting the permissions to what is specified in the bzip2 archive, which could allow local users to read the files as they are being decompressed.

Impacted Vendors

bzip 1

bzip2_project 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9127.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4775 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9127.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4775

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0760 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.

August 12, 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:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.