Security Advisory

CVE-2001-1017

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-03-09 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 04:44:06

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

rmuser utility in FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3 creates a copy of the master.passwd file with world-readable permissions while updating the original file, which could allow local users to gain privileges by reading the copied file while rmuser is running, obtain the password hashes, and crack the passwords.

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