CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.2. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2006-1283
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.36%
Original NVD 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.