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CVE-2012-0745
The getpwnam function in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.1.0.10 through 2.2.1.3 does not properly interact with customer-extended…
High7.2EPSS 0.39%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
The getpwnam function in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.1.0.10 through 2.2.1.3 does not properly interact with customer-extended LDAP user filtering, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- 1027021 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- IV19098 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IV18637 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 49073 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- aix-getpwnam-privilege-escalation(74679) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IV19077 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IV19097 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ldapauth_advisory2.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- IV18464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 53393 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- IV18638 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 81683 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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