CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0806

7.2 HIGH Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-31
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

cdrecord in the cdrtools package before 2.01, when installed setuid root, does not properly drop privileges before executing a program specified in the RSH environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• cdrtools cdrecord 1.11 • cdrtools cdrecord 2.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness

References