CVE-2019-4236

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

A IBM Spectrum Protect 7.l client backup or archive operation running for an HP-UX VxFS object is silently skipping Access Control List (ACL) entries from backup or archive if there are more than twelve ACL entries associated with the object in total. As a result, it could allow a local attacker to restore or retrieve the object with incorrect ACL entries. IBM X-Force ID: 159418.

Affected products

IBM Spectrum Protect: from 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.8.5

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159418
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10884766
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159418
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10884766

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