CVE-2002-1503: Afd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Automatic File Distributor (AFD) 1.2.14 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long MON_WORK_DIR environment variable or -w (workdir) argument to (1) afd, (2) afdcmd, (3) afd_ctrl, (4) init_afd, (5) mafd, (6) mon_ctrl, (7) show_olog, or (8) udc.

Affected products

• Afd Afd: version 1.2 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; version 1.2.5 only; …

Published 2003-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.