CVE-2012-0745

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Published: May 4, 2012 at 04:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorAIXVIOS

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

Description

The getpwnam function in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.1.0.10 through 2.2.1.3 does not properly interact with customer-extended LDAP user filtering, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

AIX · IBM

95%

5.3 6.1 7.1

VIOS · IBM

95%

2.1.0.10 2.1.2.12 2.1.2.13 2.1.3.10 2.2.0.10 2.2.0.11 2.2.0.12 2.2.0.13 2.2.1.0 2.2.1.1 2.2.1.3

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (12)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ldapauth_advisory2.asc

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://osvdb.org/81683

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/49073