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BEAST/BSE "seteuid()" and "setreuid()" Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA25032
Release Date: 2007-04-30
Popularity: 4,385 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:BEAST/BSE 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in BEAST/BSE, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to BEAST/BSE failing to check whether it has successfully dropped its privileges via "seteuid()" and "setreuid()". This can potentially be exploited to perform certain actions as the root user.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 0.7.1.

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