CVE-2000-0595

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

libedit searches for the .editrc file in the current directory instead of the user's home directory, which may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by installing a modified .editrc in another directory.

libedit searches for the .editrc file in the current directory instead of the user's home directory, which may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by installing a modified .editrc in another directory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 24 years ago

2000-07-05 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:05:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 3.1

3.1

FreeBSD 3.2

3.2

FreeBSD 3.3

3.3

FreeBSD 3.4

3.4

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

References

FreeBSD-SA-00:24

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

1446

1437

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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