CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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9.5 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in IBM AIX 3.2.5 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Logging. The manipulation as part of a Environment Variable leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Unknown vulnerability in the login program on AIX before 4.0 could allow remote users to specify 100 or more environment variables when logging on, which exceeds the length of a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.
The bug was discovered 02/25/2005. The weakness was shared 12/31/2002 (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-1689 since 06/21/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/02/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.
Upgrading to version 4.0 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (21918). The entries 19331, 19332 and 19335 are related to this item.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.5
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VulDB Temp Score: 9.5
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
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Upgrade: AIX 4.0
Timeline
12/31/2002 🔍12/31/2002 🔍
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06/21/2005 🔍
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08/04/2014 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: ibm.comAdvisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2002-1689 (🔍)
X-Force: 21918
Vulnerability Center: 21808 - IBM AIX < 4.0 Login Username Field Local Vulnerability, Critical
OSVDB: 21395 - CVE-2002-1689 - IBM - AIX - Unspecified Issue
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Entry
Created: 08/04/2014 16:27Updated: 09/02/2019 11:29
Changes: 08/04/2014 16:27 (59), 09/02/2019 11:29 (3)
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