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CVE-2018-1796 (GCVE-0-2018-1796)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-20 18:50 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:52
VLAI
Summary
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition 12.1 could allow a local user to load malicious libraries and gain root privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 149426.
CWE
  • Gain Privileges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition Affected: 12.1
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Date Public
2019-08-07 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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