CVE-2001-1277

high

Description

makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99227597227747&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2001-06-11

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00136

Detections

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