Vulnerability in Joerg Schilling Star Tape Archiver
CVE-2004-0850
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.
EPSS: 0.004 (35.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Joerg_schilling Star_tape_archiver — versions 1.5_a45
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)