CVE-2004-0806

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0806
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptioncdrecord in the cdrtools package before 2.01, when installed setuid root, does not properly drop privileges before executing a program specified in the RSH environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cdrtools Cdrecord 1.11 All All All
Application Cdrtools Cdrecord 2.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - cdrecord Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.fedora.us
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2004-09/0108.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.derkeiler.com Exploit
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#700326 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
www.securityfocus.org/bid/11075 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.org Exploit, Patch
Bugtraq: cdrecord local root exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
SecurityTracker.com Archives - cdrtools Lets Local Users Obtain Root Privileges 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

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-08-30Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. cdrecord is not shipped setuid and does not need to be made setuid with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4 packages.

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