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CVE-2001-1277

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2001-06-11 Modified: 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 Platforms

Wolfram Schneider Makewhatis

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References