CVE-2001-1324

Summary

CVECVE-2001-1324
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-06-26 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptioncvmlogin and statfile in Paul Jarc idtools before 2001.06.27 do not properly check the return value of a call to the pathexec_env function, which could cause the setstate utility to setuid to the UID environment variable and allow local users to gain privileges.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Paul Jarc Idtools 2001-05-31 All All All
Application Paul Jarc Idtools 2001-06-08 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Paul Jarc cvmlogin Privilege Elevation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
multivac.cwru.edu/idtools/admin_idtools.tar.bz2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 multivac.cwru.edu
Idtools Authentication Utilities May Let a Local User Elevate Privileges and Gain Root Level Access on the Host - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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