CVE-2019-4088

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
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: none known
Published: 2019-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

IBM Spectrum Protect Servers 7.1 and 8.1 and Storage Agents could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by loading a specially crafted library loaded by the dsmqsan module. By setting up such a library, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the vulnerable system. IBM X-Force ID: 157511.

Affected products

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center: from 7.1.0.000 through 7.1.9.200; from 8.1.0.000 through 8.1.7.000

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10882472
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/157511
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10882472
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/157511

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