CVE-2002-0265: Sawmill

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sawmill for Solaris 6.2.14 and earlier creates the AdminPassword file with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the file.

Affected products

• Sawmill Sawmill: version 6.2 only; version 6.2.1 only; version 6.2.2 only; version 6.2.3 only; version 6.2.4 only; version 6.2.5 only; …

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