FreeBSD up to 5.0 setlocale LANG privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in FreeBSD up to 5.0 and classified as problematic. The impacted element is the function setlocale. Such manipulation of the argument LANG as part of Environment Variable leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2000-1013. There is no exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in FreeBSD up to 5.0 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function setlocale. The manipulation of the argument LANG as part of a Environment Variable leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The setlocale function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the LANG environmental variable.

The weakness was shared 12/11/2000 (Website). The advisory is available at ftp.FreeBSD.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2000-1013. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (5645) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-23321†). The entries VDB-16032 and VDB-16033 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

09/27/2000 🔍
12/11/2000 +75 days 🔍
12/11/2000 +0 days 🔍
08/31/2009 +3185 days 🔍
06/30/2014 +1764 days 🔍
02/13/2017 +959 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: freebsd.org

Advisory: ftp.FreeBSD.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2000-1013 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2000-1013
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-16034
X-Force: 5645
Vulnerability Center: 23321 - FreeBSD <= 5.0 Setlocale Function LANG Environmental Variable Arbitrary Files Reading Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/30/2014 16:30
Updated: 02/13/2017 10:30
Changes: 06/30/2014 16:30 (51), 02/13/2017 10:30 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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