Michael Glickman itetris/xitetris 1.6.1/1.6.2 PATH privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Michael Glickman itetris and xitetris 1.6.1/1.6.2. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument PATH as part of Environment Variable leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2001-0087. Additionally, an exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Michael Glickman itetris and xitetris 1.6.1/1.6.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument PATH as part of a Environment Variable 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. The summary by CVE is:

itetris/xitetris 1.6.2 and earlier trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the gunzip program, which allows local users to gain root privileges by changing their PATH so that it points to a malicious gunzip program.

The weakness was released 02/12/2001 by FIRST (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2001-0087. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. 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 databases at X-Force (5795), Exploit-DB (20517) and SecurityFocus (BID 2139†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Michael Glickman

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• itetris
• xitetris

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• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2

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