IBM AIX 'man' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:28180

Info

IBM AIX 'man' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 28180
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2008-1274
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 10 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit: The vendor disclosed this issue.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 6.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM AIX 'man' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

IBM AIX is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to specify full paths to executables.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute code with the privileges of other users on affected computers.

Exploit / POC

IBM AIX 'man' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, attackers can use readily available utilities.

Solution / Fix

IBM AIX 'man' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released an advisory and fixes to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


IBM AIX 6.1

References

IBM AIX 'man' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report