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CVE-2003-0449

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2003-08-07 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Progress Database

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References