Published: 31/12/2004 Updated: 29/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 695

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The Inventory Scout daemon (invscoutd) 1.3.0.0 and 2.0.2 for AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a command line argument (log file). NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2006-5002.

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ibm aix 5.1l
ibm aix 4.3.3
ibm aix 5.1

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/9982/info Reportedly AIX invscoutd insecurely handles temporary files; this may allow a local attacker to destroy data on vulnerable system This issue is due to a design error that allows a user to specify a log file that the process writes to while holding escalated privileges This issue may allow a mal ...

CWE-362 http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5CP0F0UDFG.html http://www.xfocus.org/exploits/200403/31.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9982 http://www.osvdb.org/4582 http://secunia.com/advisories/11200 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15620 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23883/

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