CVE-2001-1029

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

libutil in OpenSSH on FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier does not drop privileges before verifying the capabilities for reading the copyright and welcome files, which allows local users to bypass the capabilities checks and read arbitrary files by specifying alternate copyright or welcome files.

libutil in OpenSSH on FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier does not drop privileges before verifying the capabilities for reading the copyright and welcome files, which allows local users to bypass the capabilities checks and read arbitrary files by specifying alternate copyright or welcome files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-20 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD OpenSSH 4.5

4.5

FreeBSD

References

20010920 Local vulnerability in libutil derived with FreeBSD 4.4-RC (and earlier)

Exploit

6073

bsd-libutil-privilege-dropping(8697)

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