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CVE-2003-0194 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (tcpdump does not properly drop privileges to the pcap user w)

tcpdump does not properly drop privileges to the pcap user when starting up.

CVE IDCVE-2003-0194
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score4.6
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2003-06-09
Last modified2026-04-16
Descriptiontcpdump does not properly drop privileges to the pcap user when starting up.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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