CVE-2001-1029

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.

Scoring

CVSS base score
0.01
EPSS probability
0.11%
Published
2004-09-01
Last modified
2026-03-16

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