Security Advisory

CVE-2001-1029

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-09-01 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 04:44:06
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.