CVE-2003-1033: SAP DB

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) instdbmsrv and (2) instlserver programs in SAP DB Development Tools 7.x trust the user-provided INSTROOT environment variable as a path when assigning setuid permissions to the lserver program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified INSTROOT that points to a malicious dbmsrv or lserver program.

Affected products

• SAP SAP DB: version 7.3.00 only; version 7.4 only

Published 2004-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.