CVE-2008-0217: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The script program in FreeBSD 5.0 through 7.0-PRERELEASE invokes openpty, which creates a pseudo-terminal with world-readable and world-writable permissions when it is not run as root, which allows local users to read data from the terminal of the user running script.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 5.0 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2008-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.