CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-1033

7.2 HIGH Published 2004-04-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-04-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The (1) instdbmsrv and (2) instlserver programs in SAP DB Development Tools 7.x trust the user-provided INSTROOT environment variable as a path when assigning setuid permissions to the lserver program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified INSTROOT that points to a malicious dbmsrv or lserver program.

Affected configurations

• sap sap db 7.3.00 • sap sap db 7.4

References