CVE-2007-1743 (GCVE-0-2007-1743)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-04-13 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:06
VLAI
Summary
suexec in Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.2.3 does not verify combinations of user and group IDs on the command line, which might allow local users to leverage other vulnerabilities to create arbitrary UID/GID owned files if /proc is mounted. NOTE: the researcher, who is reliable, claims that the vendor disputes the issue because "the attacks described rely on an insecure server configuration" in which the user "has write access to the document root." In addition, because this is dependent on other vulnerabilities, perhaps this is resultant and should not be included in CVE.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1088 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=1175118345… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017904 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=1175115687… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2007-03-28 00:00
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