HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2002-2219

Chetcpasswd vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.3%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
chetcpasswd.cgi in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.1 allows remote attackers to read the last line of the shadow file via a long user (userid) field.
Affected vendor
Chetcpasswd
Affected product
Chetcpasswd
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2002-12-31

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 6.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Chetcpasswd Chetcpasswd is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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