CVE-2000-0915 (GCVE-0-2000-0915)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-01-22 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 05:37
VLAI
Summary
fingerd in FreeBSD 4.1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying the target file name instead of a regular user name.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.osvdb.org/433 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1803 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2000-10-13 00:00
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