CVE-2003-1575: Symantec Vxfs

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VERITAS File System (VxFS) 3.3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 before MP1 Rolling Patch 02 for Sun Solaris 2.5.1 through 9 does not properly implement inheritance of default ACLs in certain circumstances related to the characteristics of a directory inode, which allows local users to bypass intended file permissions by accessing a file on a VxFS filesystem.

Affected products

• Symantec Vxfs: version 3.3.3 only; version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only

Published 2010-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.