CVE-2002-0129: Efax

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

efax 0.9 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -d option, which prints the contents of the file in a warning message.

Affected products

• Efax Efax: version 0.8a only; version 0.9 only; version 0.9a only

Published 2002-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.