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CVE-2012-4845
The FTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly manage privileges in an RBAC environment, which…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
The FTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly manage privileges in an RBAC environment, which allows attackers to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging the setuid installation of the ftp executable file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 44 days later
· 44 days 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% 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: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- IV28715 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IV23331 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ftp_advisory1.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- IV28785 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IV28787 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 56134 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- aix-ftp-setuid(79279) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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