CVE-2001-1029
N/A
Published: September 1, 2004 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:55 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFreeBSDOpenSSH
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (3)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0173.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8697Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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