Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1644

Title: SSH Secure Shell child process in parent process group privilege gain

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-1644.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 25, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1644: SSH Secure Shell for Servers and SSH Secure Shell for Workstations 2.0.13 through 3.2.1, when running without a PTY, does not call setsid to remove the child process from the process group of the parent process, which allows attackers to gain certain privileges.

Impacted Vendors

ssh 1

trilead 1

Reference Links

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/740619 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6247 http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/286/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10710 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/740619 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6247 http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/286/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10710

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1644 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 25, 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.