CVE-2001-1080

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

diagrpt in AIX 4.3.x and 5.1 uses the DIAGDATADIR environment variable to find and execute certain programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

diagrpt in AIX 4.3.x and 5.1 uses the DIAGDATADIR environment variable to find and execute certain programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 23 years ago

2001-06-19 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 4.3

4.3

IBM AIX 5.1

5.1

References

2916

MSS-OAR-E01-2001:225.1

Patch, Vendor Advisory

aix-diagrpt-root-shell(6734)

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