CVE-2012-5951

high

Published 2012-12-26 · 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

7.2

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM Tivoli NetView 1.4, 5.1 through 5.4, and 6.1 on z/OS allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the normal Unix System Services (USS) security level.

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	tivoli_netview	`1.4`
ibm	tivoli_netview	`5.1`
ibm	tivoli_netview	`5.2`
ibm	tivoli_netview	`5.3`
ibm	tivoli_netview	`5.4`
ibm	tivoli_netview	`6.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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