CVE-2002-1253: Abuse

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Abuse 2.00 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via command line arguments that specify alternate Lisp scripts that run at escalated privileges, which can contain functions that execute commands or modify files.

Affected products

• Abuse Abuse: up to and including 2.00

Published 2002-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.