J-Security Center

Title: SCO OpenServer Doctor Command Execution Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

The SCO Doctor management tool allows any user to execute commands with root privileges. The SCO Doctor management tool autonomously monitors and manages systems to ensure optimum reliability and performance. SCO DOctor ships with SCO OpenServer.

By default /bin/doctor is SUID root and world executable.

Affected Products:

  • SCO Open Server 5.0.4
  • SCO Open Server 5.0.5

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