CVE-2002-0178: GNU Sharutils

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

uudecode, as available in the sharutils package before 4.2.1, does not check whether the filename of the uudecoded file is a pipe or symbolic link, which could allow attackers to overwrite files or execute commands.

Affected products

• GNU Sharutils: version 4.2 only

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