CVE-2001-0529 describes a local symlink vulnerability in OpenSSH version 2.9 and earlier, affecting OpenBSD and OpenSSH products when X forwarding is enabled. An attacker can exploit this to delete any file named 'cookies'. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.