Security Advisory

CVE-2004-0850

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-09-24 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 00:31:47
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.