VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2000-1012

CVSS score7.2 HIGH

EPSS probability0.35%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2000-12-11

Last modified2026-06-16

CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.