CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1277

2.1 LOW Published 2001-06-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-06-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters.

Affected configurations

• wolfram schneider makewhatis (<= 1.5i2)

References