CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-1054

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious 'uname' program, which is executed from lsvpd after lsvpd has been invoked by invscout.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential privilege escalation by a local user, which could lead to full system compromise.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update IBM AIX to a version where this vulnerability is fixed, and restrict local access to the system only to trusted users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "uname" program, which is executed from lsvpd after lsvpd has been invoked by invscout.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS