A vulnerability was found in Caldera OpenUnix 8.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the file scoadminreg.cgi/service_action.cgi of the component webtop. The manipulation of the argument -c with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in webtop in UnixWare 7.1.1 and Open UNIX 8.0.0 allows local and possibly remote attackers to gain root privileges via shell metacharacters in the -c argument for (1) in scoadminreg.cgi or (2) service_action.cgi.

The weakness was disclosed 05/31/2002 (Website). The advisory is available at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-0311. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/07/2018). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed in Shell File. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (7977).

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• Caldera

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• OpenUnix

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• 8.0

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• open-source

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