PT-2000-1335 · Kde · Kde Kscd

Published 2000-05-16 · Updated 2008-09-10 · CVE-2000-0393

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KDE kscd (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the KDE kscd program, which fails to drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable. This allows a user to potentially gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0393

Affected Products

Kde Kscd

References · 5

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/19915 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0393 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1206 · Note
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_50.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0172.html · Note