IBM AIX CFGMGR Local Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerabilities

IBM AIX CFGMGR Local Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerabilities

IBM AIX is prone to these locally exploitable vulnerabilities:

- a privilege-escalation issue
- an arbitrary-file-overwrite issue.

A local attacker may be able to exploit these issues to gain elevated privileges on the affected computer. A successful exploit will lead to a complete compromise. Attackers may also overwrite arbitrary files, resulting in denial-of-service conditions.

Attackers require access to the 'system' group to execute the affected binary.

IBM AIX versions 5.2 and 5.3 are vulnerable to these issues.