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Vigil@nce - IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager: privilege escalation
December 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can modify a file of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for
Tivoli Storage Manager, in order to escalate his privileges.
Impacted products: Tivoli Storage Manager.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 28/10/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager product
installs its files on the system.
However, some installed files can be modified by all local users.
A local attacker can therefore modify a file of IBM Tivoli
Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager, in order to escalate his
privileges.
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