#VU15959 Privilege escalation in IBM Algo Credit Manager - CVE-2018-12539
Published: November 19, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU15959
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12539
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
IBM Algo Credit Manager
IBM Algo Credit Manager
Software vendor:
IBM Corporation
IBM Corporation
Description
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to the failure to restrict the use of Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations to only the process owner. A local attacker can conduct directory traversal attack and extract compressed dump files.
The weakness exists due to the failure to restrict the use of Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations to only the process owner. A local attacker can conduct directory traversal attack and extract compressed dump files.
Remediation
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 5.2.0.5 IF6, 5.3.0.5 IF12, 5.4.3 IF 2.