CVE-2004-0850

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-12-23

Updated: 2017-07-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High