SAS Integration Technologies 8.0 sastcpd authprog privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in SAS Integration Technologies 8.0 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component sastcpd. Performing a manipulation of the argument authprog as part of Environment Variable results in privileges management. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2002-2017. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in SAS Integration Technologies 8.0. This affects an unknown part of the component sastcpd. The manipulation of the argument authprog as part of a Environment Variable leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

sastcpd in SAS/Base 8.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the authprog environment variable to reference a malicious program, which is then executed by sastcpd.

The weakness was shared 12/31/2002 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-2017 since 07/14/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/07/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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 (8024) and SecurityFocus (BID 3994†). The entry VDB-19660 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

01/30/2002 🔍
12/31/2002 +335 days 🔍
12/31/2002 +0 days 🔍
07/14/2005 +926 days 🔍
08/05/2014 +3309 days 🔍
07/07/2024 +3624 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: online.securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-2017 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-2017
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-19659
X-Force: 8024
SecurityFocus: 3994 - SAS SASTCPD Local Root Code Execution Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/05/2014 11:52
Updated: 07/07/2024 21:51
Changes: 08/05/2014 11:52 (49), 04/19/2019 22:24 (4), 07/07/2024 21:51 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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