CVE-2002-1970: Snortcenter

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

SnortCenter 0.9.5, when configured to push Snort rules, stores the rules in a temporary file with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which allows local users to obtain usernames and passwords for the alert database servers.

Affected products

• Snortcenter Snortcenter: version 0.9.5 only

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