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High
CVE-2004-0850
Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
joerg schilling
View all reports →Affected Software
star tape archiver
Vulnerable Versions:
1.5_a45
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 24th, 2004
Last Modified:
August 8th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.