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CVE-2001-1277

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2001-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Wolfram Schneider Makewhatis: through 1.5i2

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99227597227747&w=2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99227597227747&w=2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805

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