CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1233

2.6 LOW Published 2002-11-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-11-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

A regression error in the Debian distributions of the apache-ssl package (before 1.3.9 on Debian 2.2, and before 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0), for Apache 1.3.27 and earlier, allows local users to read or modify the Apache password file via a symlink attack on temporary files when the administrator runs (1) htpasswd or (2) htdigest, a re-introduction of a vulnerability that was originally identified and addressed by CVE-2001-0131.

Affected configurations

• apache http server 1.3.17 • apache http server 1.3.18 • apache http server 1.3.19 • apache http server 1.3.20 • apache http server 1.3.22 • apache http server 1.3.23 • apache http server 1.3.24 • apache http server 1.3.25 • apache http server 1.3.26 • apache http server 1.3.27

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