CVE-2002-1253 — Abuse 2.00 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via command line arguments that specify alternate Lisp scripts that run at escalated privileges, which can contain functions that execute commands or modify files

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HIGH

Abuse 2.00 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via command line arguments that specify alternate Lisp scripts that run at escalated privileges, which can contain functions that execute commands or modify files

Published Sep 1, 2004

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.51%

Description

Abuse 2.00 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via command line arguments that specify alternate Lisp scripts that run at escalated privileges, which can contain functions that execute commands or modify files.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.51% 0.00510

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00510

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 1, 2026	0.51% (0.00510)	41.30th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.51% (0.00510)	39.19th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00043)	10.35th	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://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0055.html
mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.01.02.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11300.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0055.html		mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.01.02.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11300.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 1, 2004

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Nov 1, 2002

Link CVE-2002-1253

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-1253

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-1253