IBM AIX CHCOD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:12060

Info

IBM AIX CHCOD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12060
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2004-1028
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Dec 21 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 09:26AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability is credited to iDEFENSE Labs.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 5.3 L
IBM AIX 5.2.2
IBM AIX 5.2 L
IBM AIX 5.1 L
IBM AIX 5.3
IBM AIX 5.2
IBM AIX 5.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM AIX CHCOD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The AIX 'chcod' utility is reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The vendor describes that this vulnerability results from an insecure path handling issue.

Reports indicate that this issue may be exploited by a local user that is a member of the 'system' group to run arbitrary code as the superuser.

Exploit / POC

IBM AIX CHCOD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

IBM AIX CHCOD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and APARs to address this vulnerability, please see the referenced advisory for further detail in regards to obtaining and installing appropriate APARs.


IBM AIX 5.1

IBM AIX 5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

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IBM AIX CHCOD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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