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CVE-2002-0244 — HIGH severity vulnerability (Directory traversal vulnerability in chroot function in Athe)

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.

CVE IDCVE-2002-0244
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.5
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2002-05-29
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionDirectory 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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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