Security Bulletin: AIX/VIOS is vulnerable to arbitrary file write due to Kerberos (CVE-2025-36244)

Summary Vulnerability in AIX's Kerberos could allow a non-privileged local user to write to arbitrary files CVE-2025-36244 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2025-36244 DESCRIPTION: IBM AIX, when configured to use Kerberos network authentication, could allow a local user to write to files on the...

CVE-2025-36244

IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3, IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1, when configured to use Kerberos network authentication, could allow a local user to write to files on the system with root privileges due to improper initialization of critical variables...