Vulnerability in FreeBSD
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.014 (70.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD OpenSSH — versions 4.5
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0173.html (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.osvdb.org/6073 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8697 (vdb-entry)