CVE-2006-1283: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

opiepasswd in One-Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p22 through 6.1-STABLE before 20060322 uses the getlogin function to determine the invoking user account, which might allow local users to configure OPIE access to the root account and possibly gain root privileges if a root shell is permitted by the configuration of the wheel group or sshd.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 1.1.5.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.5 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.5 only; …

Published 2006-03-23. Last modified 2026-09-23.