SAP MaxDB sdbstarter Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SAP MaxDB sdbstarter Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SAP MaxDB is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Exploiting this issue allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges. This will lead to the complete compromise of an affected computer.

This issue affects MaxDB 7.6.0.37 on both Linux and Solaris platforms. Other UNIX variants are most likely affected. Microsoft Windows versions are not vulnerable to this issue.