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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Rational ClearCase remote client with potential for privilege escalation (CVE-2013-5373)

Created by John T Kohl on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/232845
232845

Security Bulletin


Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the IBM Rational ClearCase remote client command line script.

Vulnerability Details

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CVE ID: CVE-2013-5373

DESCRIPTION: A file permissions problem with a script installed by default with IBM Rational ClearCase could be exploited by a local user to insert additional commands into the script. These commands would be executed by other users (privileged or unprivileged) that execute the script, leading to privilege escalation.

CVSS Base Score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86791 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected Products and Versions

Rational ClearCase 8.0.0.3 through 8.0.0.7, and 8.0.1.

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to one of the below versions of IBM Rational ClearCase:

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workaround: Remove group and world write permissions from the following two files on all hosts with the RemoteClient installation:

  • /opt/rational/clearcase/RemoteClient/rcleartool
  • /opt/rational/clearcase/RemoteClient/rcleartool.conf


Mitigation: Do not execute the script without first examining its contents and those of the associated conf file.

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None

Change History

* 16 September 2013: Original Copy Published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 July 2018

UID

swg21648811

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