Description
The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.
Published: 2000-07-12
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2000-0392 The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:14:21.539Z

Reserved: 2000-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0393

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Status : Modified

Published: 2000-05-16T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0393

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