CVE-2004-0850 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Star tape archiver versions prior to 1.5_alpha46. The flaw allows local users to gain elevated privileges by manipulating the RSH environment variable, as the software fails to drop its effective user ID before executing external programs. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its local attack vector, low complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5_a45CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joerg_schilling:star_tape_archiver:1.5_a45:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.