CVE-2002-0267

critical

Description

preferences.php in Simple Internet Publishing System (SIPS) before 0.3.1 allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges via a linebreak in the "theme" field followed by the Status::admin command, which causes the Status line to be entered into the password file.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4097

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8193.php

http://sips.sourceforge.net/adminvul.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101363233905645&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-05-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01193