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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.4 High

CVE-2025-36244

IBM AIX privilege escalation

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
ibm

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3, IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1, when configured to use Kerberos network authentication, could allow a local user to write to files on the system with root privileges due to improper initialization of critical variables.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

IBM AIX

Default version status: unaffected

  • 7.2affected
  • 7.3affected

IBM VIOS

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.1affected
  • 4.1affected

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