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CVE-2012-4845

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 6.1, 7.1
• IBM VIOS: 2.2.1.4-fp-25_sp-02

References

• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ftp_advisory1.asc
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV23331
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV28715
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV28785
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV28787
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56134
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79279
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19695
• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ftp_advisory1.asc
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV23331
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV28715
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV28785

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