CVE-2002-0162: Logwatch

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

LogWatch before 2.5 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the logwatch temporary directory.

Affected products

• Logwatch Logwatch: up to and including 2.5

Published 2002-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.