CVE-2001-1029

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8697

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2001-1010

http://www.osvdb.org/6073

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0173.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2001-09-20

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00172