IBM AIX 5.2/5.3 access control

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A vulnerability was found in IBM AIX 5.2/5.3 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".

The bug was discovered 08/20/2007. The weakness was shared 09/10/2007 (Website). The advisory is available at www14.software.ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-4798 since 09/10/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. 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 08/23/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1802 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (36447). The entries 38715, 38713, 38712 and 38711 are related to this item.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

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Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: www14.software.ibm.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-4798 (🔍)
X-Force: 36447
Vulnerability Center: 20427 - IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 Inventory Scout Allows Local Users to Delete System Files, Low
SecurityFocus: 25556 - IBM AIX Inventory Scout Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 26715
OSVDB: 40393 - IBM AIX invscout.rte Inventory Scout invscout Arbitrary Local File Deletion
Vupen: ADV-2007-3059

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Created: 03/16/2015 12:18
Updated: 08/23/2019 12:50
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (62), 08/23/2019 12:50 (5)
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