CVE-2024-27273

IBM AIX privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: May 7, 2024
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Feb 22, 2024

Description

IBM AIX's Unix domain (AIX 7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1, and VIOS 4.1) datagram socket implementation could potentially expose applications using Unix domain datagram sockets with SO_PEERID operation and may lead to privilege escalation. IBM X-Force ID: 284903.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AIXIBM	7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1, VIOS 4.1Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7150297vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/284903vdb-entry

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