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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2003-0449 json

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via…

published 2003-06-20 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0443

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so in_proapsv, or (2) the -installdir command line parameter, as demonstrated using librocket_r.so in _dbagent.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22773)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22773 Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation local, 2003-06-14
  • secnetops.com http://www.secnetops.com/research/advisories/SRT2003-06-13-1009.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • secnetops.com http://www.secnetops.com/research/advisories/SRT2003-06-13-0945.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.