CVE-2020-4887
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-20 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 19:56
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Summary
IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2 and AIX VIOS 3.1 could allow a local user to exploit a vulnerability in the gencore user command to create arbitrary files in any directory. IBM X-Force ID: 190911.
References
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190911VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6406022Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
IBMAIX
IBMVIOS
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