CVE-2003-0449: Progress Database

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Progress Database: version 9.1 only

Published 2003-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.