CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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8.0 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in IBM AIX up to 5.3 L (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
untrusted execution path vulnerability in chcod on aix ibm 5.1.0 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the path environment variable to point to a malicious "grep" program which is executed from chcod.
The issue has been introduced in 05/01/2001. The weakness was shared 01/10/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared at www-1.ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-1028 since 11/12/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1350 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
Upgrading to version 6.1 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (18625). The entry 23670 is related to this item.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0
VulDB Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Temp Score: 8.0
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Local Privilege EscalationCWE: Unknown
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: AIX 6.1
Timeline
05/01/2001 🔍11/12/2004 🔍
12/21/2004 🔍
01/10/2005 🔍
01/10/2005 🔍
12/20/2005 🔍
09/19/2006 🔍
03/10/2015 🔍
07/01/2021 🔍
Sources
Vendor: ibm.comAdvisory: www-1.ibm.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2004-1028 (🔍)
X-Force: 18625
Vulnerability Center: 12754 - IBM AIX \x27grep\x27 Program Execution due to Path Vulnerability in chcod, Medium
SecurityFocus: 12060
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Entry
Created: 03/10/2015 12:14Updated: 07/01/2021 08:52
Changes: 03/10/2015 12:14 (50), 01/14/2018 10:29 (8), 07/01/2021 08:52 (4)
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