CVE-2011-4834 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 on AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris. The GetInstalledPackages function in the configuration tool is susceptible to symlink or FIFO attacks on /tmp/tmp.txt, allowing local users to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability has low attack complexity but can lead to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on CISA's KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-36430) exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hp:application_lifestyle_management:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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