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CVE-2002-1296

Directory traversal vulnerability in priocntl system call in Solaris does allows local users to execute arbitrary code via ".." sequences in the pc_clname field of a pcinfo_t structure, which cause priocntl to load a malicious kernel module.

Published: Dec 23, 2002 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (7)

Vendor Product Version
sun solaris 2.6
sun solaris 7.0
sun solaris 8.0
sun solaris 9.0
sun sunos 5.5.1
sun sunos 5.7
sun sunos 5.8

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-2r2c-grqr-jcvc

Directory traversal vulnerability in priocntl system call in Solaris does allows local users to...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.2 / 10
EPSS Score 0.62%

Top 54% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 29 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub