Joerg Schilling Star Tape Archiver vor up to 1. environment Local Privilege Escalation
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A vulnerability was found in Joerg Schilling Star Tape Archiver. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument environment
with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was presented 12/23/2004 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-0850 since 09/13/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14675 (GLSA-200409-11 : star: Suid root vulnerability), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks.
Upgrading to version bis 1. eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17297) and Tenable (14675).
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Local Privilege EscalationCWE: Unknown
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Nessus ID: 14675
Nessus Name: GLSA-200409-11 : star: Suid root vulnerability
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OpenVAS ID: 54668
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200409-11 (star)
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Star Tape Archiver bis 1.
Timeline
08/26/2004 🔍08/26/2004 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: kb.cert.orgStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2004-0850 (🔍)
X-Force: 17297
SecurityTracker: 1011195 - Star Has Unspecified Flaw That May Let Local Users Gain Root Privileges
Vulnerability Center: 22834 - Star Tape Archiver < 1.5_alpha46 RSH Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, High
SecurityFocus: 11141 - Star Tape Archiver Local SetUID Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 02/27/2015 23:37Updated: 06/30/2021 15:01
Changes: 02/27/2015 23:37 (60), 02/11/2017 10:33 (13), 06/30/2021 15:01 (3)
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