CVE-2001-0872

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Summary

CVECVE-2001-0872
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-12-21 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionOpenSSH 3.0.1 and earlier with UseLogin enabled does not properly cleanse critical environment variables such as LD_PRELOAD, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openbsd Openssh All All All All
Operating System Redhat Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Linux 7.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Linux 7.2 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 6.4 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.2 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 7.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-091-1 ssh af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#157447 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 frontal2.mandriva.com
SuSE Security announcements: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Secu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.suse.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
marc.info af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
OpenSSH UseLogin Environment Variable Passing Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
marc.info af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
M-026: OpenSSH UseLogin Privilege Elevation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ciac.org
ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2001-042.1.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.caldera.com
www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www1.itrc.hp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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