cve-2012-4845
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-10-20 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:50
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The FTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly manage privileges in an RBAC environment, which allows attackers to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging the setuid installation of the ftp executable file.
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