CVE-2002-1890: Red Hat Rhmask

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rhmask 1.0-9 in Red Hat Linux 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the mask file.

Affected products

• Red Hat Rhmask: version 1.0-9 only

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