CVE-2004-0850

Published Dec 23, 2004

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:joerg_schilling:star_tape_archiver:1.5_a45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "CE72F5B7-04A1-42AC-B024-81C7D63391DC"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References