Description
saposcol in SAP R/3 Web Application Server Demo before 1.5 trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the expand program, which allows local users to obtain root access by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse expand program.
References
- 2662 vdb-entry
- linux-sap-execute-code(6487) vdb-entry
- 20010429 SAP R/3 Web Application Server Demo for Linux: root exploit mailing-list