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CVE-2002-1689

Unknown vulnerability in the login program on AIX before 4.0 could allow remote users to specify 100 or more environment variables when logging on, which exceeds the length of a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Published: Dec 31, 2002 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

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Affected Products (1)

Vendor Product Version
ibm aix 3.2.5

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-xqmh-wj7x-9rxf

Unknown vulnerability in the login program on AIX before 4.0 could allow remote users to specify...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 10.0 / 10
EPSS Score 2.10%

Top 20% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.6 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub