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CVE-2017-1093
IBM AIX 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 could allow a local user to exploit a vulnerability in the bellmail binary to gain root privileges.
High7.8EPSS 0.37%
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- ibm
Description
IBM AIX 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 could allow a local user to exploit a vulnerability in the bellmail binary to gain root privileges.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Gain Privileges
Affected products
- affected 3.4
- affected 3.2.0
- affected 4.1.1
- affected 4.1.2
- affected 4.1.3
- affected 4.1.4
- affected 4.1.5
- affected 4.2.0
- affected 4.2.1.12
- affected 430
- affected 5
- affected 5.1L
- affected 5.2.2
- affected 5.2 L
- affected 5.3 L
- affected 5.3.7
- affected 4.3
- affected 4.3.2
- affected 4
- affected 5.2
- affected 4.3.1
- affected 4.3.3.10
- affected 3.1
- affected 4.2.1
- affected 4.2
- affected 2.2.1
- affected 5.1
- affected 4.3.3
- affected 4.1
- affected 3.2.5
- affected 3.2
- affected 3.2.4
- affected 6.1
- affected 5.3
- affected 5.2.0.50
- affected 5.2.0.54
- affected 5.3.0.10
- affected 5.3.0.20
- affected 5.2.0
- affected 5.3.0
- and 14 more
References (3)
- 1037748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bellmail_advisory2.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 95891 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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