CVE-2018-1903

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX 4.2.0, 4.3.0, and 6.0.0 could allow a user with restricted sudo access on a system to manipulate CD…

6.7MediumCVSS base score
0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

Description

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX 4.2.0, 4.3.0, and 6.0.0 could allow a user with restricted sudo access on a system to manipulate CD UNIX to gain full sudo access. IBM X-Force ID: 152532.

Timeline

2017
13 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017
ID reserved
By ibm
2019
10 Apr 201916 months later
10 Apr 2019· 16 months later
Published
2024
17 Sept 20245 years later
17 Sept 2024· 5 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2018-1903, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
ibmCNA (assigner)	3.0	Medium6.7	CVSS:3.0/C:H/UI:N/AC:L/AV:L/I:H/A:H/S:U/PR:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
NVDNVD · Modified	3.0	Medium6.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.

Affected products

IBM · Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX
- affected 4.2.0
- affected 4.3.0
- affected 6.0.0

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10875386 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
ibm-sterling-cve20181903-priv-escalation (152532) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 03:23 UTC.