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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 Sep 1, 2004

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.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 1, 2004
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Jan 31, 2002
Link CVE-2001-1029
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2001-1029
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2001-1029