CVE-2000-1013 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The setlocale function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the LANG environmental variable.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00046.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
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Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2000-1000	The setlocale function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the LANG environmental variable.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:53.catopen.asc

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-11-29T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:37:32.192Z

Reserved: 2000-11-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2000-1013

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2000-12-11T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2000-1013

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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