Privilege escalation in IBM AIX - CVE-2017-1692

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10385

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1692

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an unspecified flaw in bellmail, caccelstat, iostat, lquerypv, restbyinode, and vmstat. A local attacker can gain root privileges.

IBM AIX

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• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/suid_advisory.asc

• Privilege escalation in IBM AIX