IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS Privilege Escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 70173

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Synopsis

The remote host may be running software with a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The remote host appears to have IBM Tivoli NetView installed that is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. A Unix System Services authenticated attacker may be able to gain the privileges of the NetView application.

Note that Nessus has not tested for the issues, but instead has relied only on the detected version number. Nessus is unable to determine if the patches for this vulnerability are installed as it does not change this detected version number.

Solution

Updates are available from the vendor.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70173

File Name: ibm_netview_zos_privilege_escalation.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/27/2013

Updated: 9/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:ibm:tivoli_netview

Required KB Items: Secret/ClearTextAuth/login, Secret/ClearTextAuth/pass

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5951

BID: 57036

Detections

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