A vulnerability has been found in OpenBSD up to 3.2 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the file chpass of the component Temp File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

chpass in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.2 allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a temporary file used to store user database information.

The weakness was shared 12/31/2003 by Marc Bevand (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2003-1366 since 10/16/2007. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (11233).

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• Operating System

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• OpenBSD

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2

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• open-source

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