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CVE-2001-0529 — HIGH severity vulnerability (OpenSSH version 2.9 and earlier, with X forwarding enabled,)

OpenSSH version 2.9 and earlier, with X forwarding enabled, allows a local attacker to delete any file named 'cookies' via a symlink attack.

CVE IDCVE-2001-0529
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.2
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2001-08-14
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionOpenSSH version 2.9 and earlier, with X forwarding enabled, allows a local attacker to delete any file named 'cookies' via a symlink attack.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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