CVE-2004-0884 in Cyrus-SASL

Summary

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

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• Reservation: 09/22/2004
• Disclosure: 01/27/2005
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-23875 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 9.3
• EPSS: 0.00060
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0884
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0884
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2004-0884/