CVE-2009-0536

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

at in bos.rte.cron on IBM AIX 5.2.0, 5.3.0 through 5.3.9, and 6.1.0 through 6.1.2 allows local users to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors, related to failure to drop root privileges.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.7, 5.3.8, 5.3.9, 6.1.0 (+2)

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/at_advisory.asc
http://osvdb.org/51952
http://secunia.com/advisories/33915
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43452
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43453
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43454
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43455
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43456
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43457
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43458
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ43459
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33730

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