CDRTools RSH Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:11075

Info

CDRTools RSH Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11075
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0806
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 31 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 05:56PM
Credit: Max Vozeler is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: SGI ProPack 3.0 SP6
SCO Unixware 7.1.4
Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
Gentoo Linux 1.4
CDRTools CDRTools 2.0.3
CDRTools CDRTools 2.0.1 a18
CDRTools CDRTools 2.0.1
+ MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0 x86_64
 + MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2 x86_64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
CDRTools CDRTools 2.0
+ Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ppc
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia64
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia32
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

CDRTools RSH Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CDRTools is reportedly vulnerable to an RSH environment variable privilege-escalation vulnerability. This issue is due to the application's failure to properly implement security controls when executing an application specified by the RSH environment variable.

An attacker may leverage this issue to gain superuser privileges on a computer running the affected software.

Exploit / POC

CDRTools RSH Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue. Proof-of-concept examples have been provided by newbug Tseng <[email protected]> and I)ruid [CAU].

CORE has developed a working commercial exploit for their IMPACT product. This exploit is not otherwise publicly available or known to be circulating in the wild.

Solution / Fix

CDRTools RSH Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:


Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]

Please see the referenced advisories for more information and fixes.


CDRTools CDRTools 2.0.1

SCO Unixware 7.1.4

References

CDRTools RSH Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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