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CVE-2004-0850

Published

19 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: High
Base Score: 7.2/10
Exploit Score: 3.9/10
Access Vector: Local
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 10/10
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Availability Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:a:joerg_schilling:star_tape_archiver:1.5_a45::::	Yes	-	-

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297