CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0595

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2000-07-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-07-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

libedit searches for the .editrc file in the current directory instead of the user's home directory, which may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by installing a modified .editrc in another directory.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 3.0 • freebsd freebsd 3.1 • freebsd freebsd 3.2 • freebsd freebsd 3.3 • freebsd freebsd 3.4 • freebsd freebsd 4.0

References