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opiepasswd in One-Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p22 through 6.1-STABLE before 20060322 uses the getlogin function to determine the invoking user account, which might allow local users to configure OPIE access to the root account and possibly gain root privileges if a root shell is permitted by the configuration of the wheel group or sshd

Published Mar 23, 2006

Description

opiepasswd in One-Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p22 through 6.1-STABLE before 20060322 uses the getlogin function to determine the invoking user account, which might allow local users to configure OPIE access to the root account and possibly gain root privileges if a root shell is permitted by the configuration of the wheel group or sshd.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner freebsd
Published Mar 23, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Mar 19, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Sep 23, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a