CVE-2020-4829

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Dec 10, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 30, 2019

Description

IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2, and VIOS 3.1 could allow a local user to exploit a vulnerability in the ksu user command to gain root privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 189960.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.4 High	CVSS:3.0/AC:L/PR:N/A:H/I:H/AV:L/S:U/UI:N/C:H/RL:O/RC:C/E:U	ibm

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VIOSIBM	3.1Affected
AIXIBM	7.1Affected 7.2Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6380430
ibm-aix-cve20204829-priv-escalation (189960)vdb-entry

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