CVE-2001-1029: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 4.4
• OpenBSD OpenSSH: version 4.5 only

Published 2001-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.