CVE-2002-0244

HIGH 7.5CVE-2002-0244 · Published 29/05/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-0244 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting atheos (atheos).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 86.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
atheos atheos	`= 0.3.7`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in chroot function in AtheOS 0.3.7 allows attackers to escape the jail via a .. (dot dot) in the pathname argument to chdir.

References

marc.info
securityfocus.com/bid/4051 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8108

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