CVE-2022-41290

IBM AIX privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Dec 23, 2022
Updated: Apr 10, 2025
Reserved: Sep 21, 2022

Description

IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and VIOS 3.1 could allow a non-privileged local user to exploit a vulnerability in the rm_rlcache_file command to obtain root privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 236690.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AIXIBM	7.1, 7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6847917vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236690vdb-entry

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