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Secunia Advisory SA31318

MaxDB "dbmsrv" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA31318
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Release Date 2008-08-01
   
Popularity 4,650 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
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Software:
MaxDB 7.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1810 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in MaxDB, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the "dbmsrv" application improperly checking the "PATH" environment variable when executed via "dbmcli". This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with "sdb" user privileges and "sdba" group privileges via a specially crafted "PATH".

The vulnerability is reported in version 7.6.03.15 on Linux. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
The vendor has released a new version that fixes the vulnerability. Consult SAP Note 1178438 for more information.

Provided and/or discovered by
anonymous researcher, reported via iDefense

Original Advisory
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=729

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