CVE-2002-0760

Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, decompresses files with world-readable permissions before setting the permissions to what is specified in the bzip2 archive, which could allow local users to read the files as they are being decompressed.

Published: 2002-08-12 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2002-0760 is rated Low Risk (10.1/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-0760

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.06% +0.01%
2 2023-03-07 0.95% 0.04% -0.91%
3 2022-02-04 — 0.95% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-0760

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
1.2 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 1.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-0760

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-0760

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bzip bzip2 0.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.0a cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.0b cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.0c cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.5a cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.5b cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.5c cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 0.9.5d cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bzip bzip2 1.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-0760

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