CVE-2005-0261

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

lspath in AIX 5.2, 5.3, and possibly earlier versions, does not drop privileges before processing the -f option, which allows local users to read one line of arbitrary files.

lspath in AIX 5.2, 5.3, and possibly earlier versions, does not drop privileges before processing the -f option, which allows local users to read one line of arbitrary files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 20 years ago

2005-02-10 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

14232

20050210 IBM AIX lspath Local File Access Vulnerability

Vendor Advisory

12513

IY67457

Patch, Vendor Advisory

IY67655

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ibm-aix-ispath-information-disclosure(19281)

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