Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 31, 2002· Updated Apr 16, 2026
CVE-2002-2040
CVE-2002-2040
Description
The (1) phrafx and (2) phgrafx-startup programs in QNX realtime operating system (RTOS) 4.25 and 6.1.0 do not properly drop privileges before executing the system command, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the PATH environment variable to reference a malicious crttrap program.
Affected products
2Patches
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