CVE-2009-2669
IBM AIX Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2009-2669 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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CVE-2009-2669 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc Added Reference http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/36156 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 06, 2009
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-2669 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2009-2669
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.12 }} 0.00%
score
0.27646
percentile