Privilege Escalation via Untrusted Execution Path in invscout on IBM AIX

Privilege Escalation via Untrusted Execution Path in invscout on IBM AIX

CVE-2004-1054 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "uname" program, which is executed from lsvpd after lsvpd has been invoked by invscout.

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