CVE-2001-1277

LOW 2.1CVE-2001-1277 · Published 11/06/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-1277 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting makewhatis (wolfram schneider).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.39%, higher than 33.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
makewhatis wolfram_schneider	`≤ 1.5i2`	No fix yet

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.

References

marc.info
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html · Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

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