VDB-74465 · CVE-2015-0197 · BID 73282

IBM General Parallel File System up to 4.0 access control

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A vulnerability was found in IBM General Parallel File System up to 4.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component File System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.4 before 3.4.0.32, 3.5 before 3.5.0.24, and 4.1 before 4.1.0.7 allows local users to obtain root privileges for program execution via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was published 03/23/2015 by Felix Wilhelm with ERNW (Website). The advisory is shared at www-01.ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-0197 since 11/18/2014. 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. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 84826 (IBM DB2 10.1 < Fix Pack 5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Bar Mitzvah)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Databases. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 19986 (IBM DB2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (swg21633303)).

Upgrading to version 4.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (84826). Similar entries are available at 13393, 13392, 13395 and 68134.

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

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Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 84826
Nessus Name: IBM DB2 10.1 < Fix Pack 5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Bar Mitzvah)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: General Parallel File System 4.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: www-01.ibm.com
Researcher: Felix Wilhelm
Organization: ERNW
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-0197 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1032880
Vulnerability Center: 49239 - IBM General Parallel File System Local Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 73282 - IBM General Parallel File System CVE-2015-0197 Unspecified Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Created: 03/30/2015 12:43
Updated: 05/01/2022 15:59
Changes: 03/30/2015 12:43 (59), 06/23/2017 10:44 (10), 05/01/2022 15:54 (3), 05/01/2022 15:59 (1)
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