CVE-2002-1051: Ehud Gavron Tracesroute

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in TrACESroute 6.0 GOLD (aka NANOG traceroute) allows local users to execute arbitrary code via the -T (terminator) command line argument.

Affected products

• Ehud Gavron Tracesroute: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.1.1 only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.