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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents with potential for privilege escalation (CVE-2014-0907)

Created by David Hoffman on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/507569
507569

Security Bulletin


Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) agents could be exploited by a local user to gain elevated privilege of another user.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-0907
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91869 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

Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS version 6.3.0 through 6.3.0 Fix Pack 01
Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS version 6.2.3 through 6.2.3 Fix Pack 05
Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS version 6.2.2 through 6.2.2 Fix Pack 09
Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS version 6.2.1 through 6.2.1 Fix Pack 04
Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS version 6.2.0 through 6.2.0 Fix Pack 03

Universal Agent version 6.2.3 through 6.2.3 Fix Pack 01
Universal Agent version 6.2.2 through 6.2.2 Fix Pack 09
Universal Agent version 6.2.1 through 6.2.1 Fix Pack 04
Universal Agent version 6.2.0 through 6.2.0 Fix Pack 03

Remediation/Fixes


The following fixes are for the Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS:

FixVRMFHow to acquire fix
6.3.0-TIV-ITM-FP00026.3.0http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24035402
6.2.3.5-TIV-ITM_UNIX-IF00016.2.3http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037447
6.2.2.9-TIV-ITM_UNIX-IF00066.2.2http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037446
For versions 6.20 and 6.21, contact IBM Support.


The following fixes are for the Universal Agent:
FixVRMFHow to acquire fix
N/A6.3.0Does not ship in 6.3.0.
6.2.3-TIV-ITM-FP00026.2.3http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24032429
6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0009-IV568586.2.2http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037389
For versions 6.20 and 6.21, contact IBM Support.

Workarounds and Mitigations

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was reported by Tim Brown from Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.

Change History

31 July 2014 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.

*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.

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Internal Use Only

Advisory 1569
IBM20140313-1006-08
DB Record 34371

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Product Synonym

ITM

Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21670854

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