CVE-2002-0211: Tarantella Enterprise

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the installation script for Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.01 through 3.20 creates a world-writeable temporary "gunzip" program before executing it, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the program before it is executed.

Affected products

  • Tarantella Tarantella Enterprise: version 3.3.0 only; version 3.3.0.1 only; version 3.3.10 only; version 3.3.11 only; version 3.3.20 only

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