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>> IBM Hardware Management Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : IBM Hardware Management Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4143
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6294
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-12-10


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A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC), which could be exploited by malicious users to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by unspecified errors in various commands, which could be exploited to obtain elevated privileges. No further details have been disclosed.

Affected Products

IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) version 3 Release 3.7 and prior

Solution

Apply PTF U814685 :
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/server/hmc/fixes/U814685.zip

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4143
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/hmc/power4/install/ptf_U814685.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2007-12-10 : Initial release

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