CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0645

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-08-27
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

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• andries brouwer man 2.3.20 • andries brouwer man 2.4.1

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs weakness

References