CVE-2002-0162

MEDIUM 6.2CVE-2002-0162 · Published 27/03/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-0162 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.2) vulnerability affecting logwatch (logwatch).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.77%, higher than 55.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
logwatch logwatch	`≤ 2.5`	No fix yet

LogWatch before 2.5 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the logwatch temporary directory.

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