CVE-2012-2179

CVE-2012-2179 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting IBM AIX versions 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1. An attacker can exploit a symlink attack on a temporary file within the libodm.a library to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and moderate attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit modules, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.