CVE-2006-1283

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: 2006-03-23 · updated 2026-09-23

Description

opiepasswd in One-Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p22 through 6.1-STABLE before 20060322 uses the getlogin function to determine the invoking user account, which might allow local users to configure OPIE access to the root account and possibly gain root privileges if a root shell is permitted by the configuration of the wheel group or sshd.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1-stable, 2.1.0, 2.1.5 (+94)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19347
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015817
http://www.osvdb.org/24067
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17194
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1074
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25397
http://secunia.com/advisories/19347
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015817
http://www.osvdb.org/24067
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17194

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