CVE-2002-2017: Sas Base

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sastcpd in SAS/Base 8.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the authprog environment variable to reference a malicious program, which is then executed by sastcpd.

Affected products

• Sas Base: version 8.0 only
• Sas Integration Technologies: version 8.0 only

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