Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1998

RCE

Title: SCO UnixWare/Open UNIX rpc.cmsd buffer overflow RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-1998.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1998: Buffer overflow in rpc.cmsd in SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 and Open UNIX 8.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long parameter to rtable_create (procedure 21).

Impacted Vendors

sco 2

novell 1

caldera 1

Reference Links

ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openunix/CSSA-2002-SCO.12/CSSA-2002-SCO.12.txt http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-01/0127.html http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-01/0129.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8597.php ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openunix/CSSA-2002-SCO.12/CSSA-2002-SCO.12.txt http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-01/0127.html http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-01/0129.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8597.php

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1998 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.

December 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.