CVE-2014-8904
lquerylv in cmdlvm in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2.x allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted DBGCMD_LQUERYLV…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.96%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 38% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
lquerylv in cmdlvm in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2.x allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted DBGCMD_LQUERYLV environment-variable value.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- AIX 7.1 - 'lquerylv' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38576local, aixpublished 30 Oct 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 38576 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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)
- 0.96% · top 38% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 62195 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1031596 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/lvm_advisory.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- IV67907 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IV68070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- ibm-aix-cve20148904-sec-bypass(99193) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IV68082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 38576 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- IV68478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IV67908 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8731 (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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