Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in csstart Program

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in csstart Program

CVE-2000-1073 · HIGH Severity

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

csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 searches for the cshttpd program in the current working directory, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse cshttpd program in a directory and calling csstart from that directory.

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