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CVE-2002-0169 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 thro)

The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled, which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.

CVE IDCVE-2002-0169
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score4.6
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2002-05-29
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionThe default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled, which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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