CVE-2002-0225 — tac_plus Tacacs+ daemon F4.0.4.alpha, originally maintained by Cisco, creates files from the accounting directive with world-readable and writable permissions, which allows local users to access and modify sensitive files

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tac_plus Tacacs+ daemon F4.0.4.alpha, originally maintained by Cisco, creates files from the accounting directive with world-readable and writable permissions, which allows local users to access and modify sensitive files

Published May 3, 2002

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.33%

Description

tac_plus Tacacs+ daemon F4.0.4.alpha, originally maintained by Cisco, creates files from the accounting directive with world-readable and writable permissions, which allows local users to access and modify sensitive files.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.33% 0.00326

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00326

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.33% (0.00326)	23.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.33% (0.00326)	24.13th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00072)	19.29th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/253288
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8061.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4003
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/253288		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8061.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4003		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 3, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2002

Link CVE-2002-0225

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-0225

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-0225