Description
The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API 4.6.1 and 4.6.2, as used in Sun Solaris 10, trusts user-specified environment variables for specifying log files even when running from setuid programs, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- NETSCAPE
- Published
- 10/12/2006
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
netscape : portable_runtime_apinetscape : portable_runtime_apisun : solaris
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