CVE-2001-0120 (GCVE-0-2001-0120)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-05-07 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:06
VLAI?
Summary
useradd program in shadow-utils program may allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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