CVE-2002-0573

Solaris vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

9.2%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.

Affected vendor

Sun

Affected product

Solaris

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-07-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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