CVE-2000-1012

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2000-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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

Affected products

FreeBSD: 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 (+6)

References

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