CVE-2011-1384

medium

Published 2012-01-04 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

The (1) bin/invscoutClient_VPD_Survey and (2) sbin/invscout_lsvpd programs in invscout.rte before 2.2.0.19 on IBM AIX 7.1, 6.1, 5.3, and earlier allow local users to delete arbitrary files, or trigger inventory scout operations on arbitrary files, via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	invscout.rte	`{"endIncluding":"2.2.0.18"}`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.2`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.4`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.7`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.8`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.9`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.10`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.11`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.12`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.13`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.14`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.15`
ibm	invscout.rte	`2.2.0.17`

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.