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CVE-2000-0890

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-02-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

periodic in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 6.2-stable

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/626919
• http://www.osvdb.org/1754
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2325
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6047
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/626919
• http://www.osvdb.org/1754
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2325
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6047

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