CVE-2002-1715: SSH

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SSH 1 through 3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to bypass restricted shells such as rbash or rksh by uploading a script to a world-writeable directory, then executing that script to gain normal shell access.

Affected products

• SSH SSH: version 1.2.0 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; …
• SSH SSH2: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.