SDFingerD Failure To Drop Privileges Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:7977

Info

SDFingerD Failure To Drop Privileges Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7977
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 19 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 19 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Vade 79 <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: schmolze studios sdfingerd 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SDFingerD Failure To Drop Privileges Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

sdfingerd has been reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The issue presents itself because the sdfingerd daemon fails to sufficiently drop group privileges before executing commands that are contained in a users .plan file.

Exploit / POC

SDFingerD Failure To Drop Privileges Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following proof of concept exploit has ben provided:

References

SDFingerD Failure To Drop Privileges Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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