CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0850

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in Star before version 1.5_alpha46 is that the program does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs. This allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to point to a malicious program.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves local privilege escalation, which could lead to unauthorized access to system resources or execution of code with elevated privileges.

Recommendation

Update Star to version 1.5_alpha46 or later, which fixes this vulnerability by properly dropping euid before calling external programs.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS