The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-10-21T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:31:47.620Z

Reserved: 2004-09-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-0884

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-01-27T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:29:36.263

Link: CVE-2004-0884

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2004-10-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2004-0884 - Bugzilla