CVE-2002-1548 — Unknown vulnerability in autofs on AIX 4.3.0, when using executable maps, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root, possibly related to "string handling around how the executable map is called."

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Unknown vulnerability in autofs on AIX 4.3.0, when using executable maps, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root, possibly related to "string handling around how the executable map is called."

Published Sep 1, 2004

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.41%

Description

Unknown vulnerability in autofs on AIX 4.3.0, when using executable maps, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root, possibly related to "string handling around how the executable map is called."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.41% 0.00415

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

EPSS probability 0.00415

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.41% (0.00415)	33.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.41% (0.00415)	32.95th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00046)	11.19th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	14.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 25, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	12.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00044)	10.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q4/0002.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARBroken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19159
Vendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q4/0002.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARBroken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19159		Vendor 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 Mar 4, 2003

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-1548

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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