CVE-2002-1594: Grpck

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected products

  • Grpck Grpck: any version
  • Pwck Pwck: any version

Published 2002-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.