Security Bulletin: IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to root privilege escalation (CVE-2015-1900)

Summary IBM InfoSphere Information Server could allow a local user to execute code with root privileges on the engine tier. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-1900 DESCRIPTION: IBM InfoSphere DataStage could allow a local user to bypass security and replace executables with malicious files tha...

CVE-2015-1900

CVE-2015-1900 affects IBM InfoSphere DataStage/DataStage Engine across multiple versions (8.1, 8.5, 8.7, 9.1, 11.3) on UNIX. The root cause is a privilege-escalation vector where a local user could bypass security and replace executables with malicious files, potentially executing code with root ...