Security Bulletin: IBM Systems Director is affected by elevated privileges vulnerability (CVE-2014-0907)

Summary

Vulnerability found in IBM Systems Director could allow a local user to gain elevated privilege.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

Vulnerability found in IBM Systems Director could allow a local user to gain elevated privilege.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0907 Description:
This is a security vulnerability which allows a malicious user to gain root privilege. This vulnerability can only be exploited by users through a local system account login.
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91869&gt;
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS String: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected products and versions

IBM Systems Director: 6.3.0.0, 6.3.1.0, 6.3.1.1, 6.3.2.0, 6.3.2.1, 6.3.3.0. 6.3.3.1

Non-affected Products and Versions

IBM Systems Director versions 5.2.x.x, 6.1.x.x, 6.2.x.x and all platforms are NOT vulnerable to the Elevated privileges vulnerability (CVE-2014-0907)

Remediation:

The user executing the commands must be root.

The following example will use /home/dirinst1/sqllib as the DB2 instance install directory. If you are using a different managed DB2 user ID or alternative managed DB2 instance path, you should update the instructions below accordingly.

| cd /home/dirinst1/sqllib
—|—
| bin/db2chglibpath -s ‘\.:’ -r ‘’ adm/db2iclean

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None known

References:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement
Tim Brown from Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.

Change History
03 June 2014: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Flash.

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