6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-2179

Published: 22/06/2012 Updated: 29/08/2017
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

Vulnerability Summary

libodm.a in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Vulnerability Trend

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ibm aix 5.3

ibm aix 6.1

ibm aix 7.1

Exploits

Vulnerability title: Privilege Escalation in IBM AIX CVE: CVE-2014-3977 Vendor: IBM Product: AIX Affected version: 618 and later Fixed version: N/A Reported by: Tim Brown Details: It has been identified that libodm allows privilege escalation via arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges (utilising SetGID and SetUID programs) The followin ...
IBM AIX versions 618 and later suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability in libodm due to an arbitrary file write ...