CVE-2001-1029

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published9/20/2001

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

freebsd:freebsdopenbsd:openssh

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0173.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.osvdb.org/6073(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8697(cve@mitre.org)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0173.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/6073(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8697(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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