CVE-2001-0196 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (inetd ident server in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier does not prope)
inetd ident server in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier does not properly set group permissions, which allows remote attackers to read the first 16 bytes of files that are accessible by the wheel group.
| CVE ID | CVE-2001-0196 |
|---|---|
| Severity | MEDIUM |
| CVSS score | 5.0 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2001-05-03 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | inetd ident server in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier does not properly set group permissions, which allows remote attackers to read the first 16 bytes of files that are accessible by the wheel group. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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