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CVE-2003-1033

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-04-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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 Db: 7.3.00, 7.4

References

• http://listserv.sap.com/pipermail/sapdb.sources/2003-April/000143.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105103613727471&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7407
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7408
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11842
• http://listserv.sap.com/pipermail/sapdb.sources/2003-April/000143.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105103613727471&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7407
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7408
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11842

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