CVE-1999-1480 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM AIX 4.3, specifically affecting the acledit and aclput utilities. Attackers can exploit this by using a symlink attack to create or modify arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a low severity due to requiring local access and high attack complexity, with a potential impact limited to partial integrity compromise. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decades-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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