CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2004-0850

    CVE-2004-0850

    Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.

    Published:Sep 24, 2004
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Sep 24, 2004
    EPSS Score:0.00066
    CVSS Score:7.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Joerg Schilling
    Product
    Star Tape Archiver

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High