CVE-2002-0169: Red Hat Docbook Stylesheets

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled, which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.

Affected products

• Red Hat Docbook Stylesheets: version 1.54.13 only
• Red Hat Docbook Utils: version 0.6.9-2 only; version 0.6.13 only

Published 2002-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.