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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2001-0529

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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2001-0529

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/14/2001
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/05/2012
Modified
01/30/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • openbsd-openssh-upgrade-latest

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