Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-0169 - Unspecified vulnerability in Redhat Docbook Stylesheets and Docbook Utils

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
redhat

Summary

The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled, which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Redhat
3

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2002:062