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CVE-2001-0529

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.2
7.2CVSS HIGH

Summary

OpenSSH version 2.9 and earlier, with X forwarding enabled, allows a local attacker to delete any file named 'cookies' via a symlink attack.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-010.txt.asc ↗