CVE-2001-1029

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.

Score
CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2001-09-20
Last modified
2024-08-08

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