PT-2001-2468 · Jetico · Jetico Bestcrypt

Published 2001-06-05 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-2001-1345

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Jetico BestCrypt version 0.7 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse program, due to bctool trusting the user-supplied PATH to find and execute an fsck utility program.

Recommendations For Jetico BestCrypt version 0.7 and earlier, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting the ability of local users to modify the PATH environment variable until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-1345

Affected Products

Jetico Bestcrypt

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/2820 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1345 · Security Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-06/0005.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6648 · Note
• http://jetico.com/index.htm#/linux.htm · Note