Security Bulletin
Summary
Vulnerability found in IBM Systems Director could allow a local user to gain elevated privilege.
Vulnerability Details
Abstract
Vulnerability found in IBM Systems Director could allow a local user to gain elevated privilege.
Content
Vulnerability Details:
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0907
Description:
This is a security vulnerability which allows a malicious user to
gain root privilege. This vulnerability can only be exploited by
users through a local system account login.
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91869
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS String: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Affected products and versions
IBM Systems Director: 6.3.0.0, 6.3.1.0, 6.3.1.1, 6.3.2.0, 6.3.2.1, 6.3.3.0. 6.3.3.1
Non-affected Products and Versions
IBM Systems Director versions 5.2.x.x, 6.1.x.x, 6.2.x.x and all platforms are NOT vulnerable to the Elevated privileges vulnerability (CVE-2014-0907)
Remediation:
The user executing the commands must be root.
The following example will use /home/dirinst1/sqllib as the DB2 instance install directory. If you are using a different managed DB2 user ID or alternative managed DB2 instance path, you should update the instructions below accordingly.
| cd /home/dirinst1/sqllib | |
| bin/db2chglibpath -s '\.:' -r '' adm/db2iclean |
Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):
None known
References:
Related Information:
IBM
Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security
Incident Response Blog
Acknowledgement
Tim Brown from Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.
Change History
03 June 2014: Original Copy Published
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References
*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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Document Location
Worldwide
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Modified date:
30 January 2019
UID
ibm1MIGR-5095484