CVE-2004-1028

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in chcod on AIX IBM 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "grep" program, which is executed from chcod.

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in chcod on AIX IBM 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "grep" program, which is executed from chcod.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 20 years ago

2005-01-10 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.1

5.1

IBM AIX 5.1L

5.1l

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.2.2

5.2.2

IBM AIX 5.2 L

5.2_l

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

IBM AIX 5.3 L

5.3_l

References

20041220 IBM AIX chcod Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vendor Advisory

IY64354

IY64355

IY64356

aix-chcod-gain-privileges(18625)

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