Privilege Escalation via Trusting User Input to Load Libraries in Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06

CVE-2003-0449 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so in_proapsv, or (2) the -installdir command line parameter, as demonstrated using librocket_r.so in _dbagent.

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