CVE-2012-4845

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The FTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly manage privileges in an RBAC environment, which allows attackers to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging the setuid installation of the ftp executable file.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Oct 20, 2012
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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