Insecure Permissions in PaintBBS 1.2 Allow Unauthorized Access and Configuration Modification

CVE-2002-0202 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

PaintBBS 1.2 installs certain files and directories with insecure permissions, which allows local users to (1) obtain the encrypted server password via the world-readable oekakibbs.conf file, or (2) modify the server configuration via the world-writeable /oekaki/ folder.

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