{"id":"CVE-2002-0759","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2002-0759","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:32:32.986Z","title":"bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, does not use the O_EXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn the user if an existing file would be overwritten, which…","description":"bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, does not use the O_EXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn the user if an existing file would be overwritten, which could allow attackers to overwrite files via a bzip2 archive.","published":"2002-08-12T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:58:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["bzip/bzip2"],"epss":{"score":0.01348,"percentile":0.71275,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.35%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.php","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.php","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0759","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}