CVE-2015-5005
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.5
Description
CSPOC in IBM PowerHA SystemMirror on AIX 6.1 and 7.1 allows remote authenticated users to perform an "su root" action by leveraging presence on the cluster-wide password-change list.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibm | powerha_system_mirror | | |
References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/powerha_advisory.asc
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV76943
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV76946
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV77007
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76948
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/powerha_advisory.asc
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV76943
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV76946
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV77007
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76948
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.