CVE-2000-0595: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libedit searches for the .editrc file in the current directory instead of the user's home directory, which may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by installing a modified .editrc in another directory.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2000-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.