CVE-2004-0850: Joerg Schilling Star Tape Archiver

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.

Affected products

Published 2004-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.