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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 20, 2001· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2001-1029

CVE-2001-1029

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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Affected products

4
  • OpenBSD/OpenSSH
    cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=4.4
    • (no CPE)range: <=4.4
  • OpenSSL Project/OpenSSLllm-fuzzy
    Range: <= 3.0.2 (approximate based on description context)

Patches

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