Unspecified vulnerability in mklvcopy in BOS.RTE.LVM in IBM AIX 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands when mklvcopy calls…

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in mklvcopy in BOS.RTE.LVM in IBM AIX 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands when mklvcopy calls external commands, possibly due to an untrusted search path vulnerability.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• 1015786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• ADV-2006-0957 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 17115 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• aix-mklvcopy-code-execution(25849) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 23921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• aix-bosrtelvm-gain-privileges(25299) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• IY82739 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
• 20060323 IBM changing significant details? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VIMx_transferred
• 19235 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0602.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:03 UTC.