CVE-2008-6558

HIGH 7.2CVE-2008-6558 · Published 30/03/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-6558 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting reliantha (unixware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.87%, higher than 59.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
reliantha unixware	`= 1.1.4`	No fix yet

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in (1) hvdisp and (2) rcvm in ReliantHA 1.1.4 in SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the RELIANT_PATH environment variable to point to a malicious bin/hvenv program.

References

ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/security/p534850/p534850.txt · Patch
osvdb.org/46706
osvdb.org/46707
secunia.com/advisories/30921 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/28624 · Exploit
exploit-db.com/exploits/5356

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