CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0449

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-08-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-08-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so in_proapsv, or (2) the -installdir command line parameter, as demonstrated using librocket_r.so in _dbagent.

Affected configurations

• progress database 9.1

References