Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability in dpsexec (DPS Server) on IBM AIX

CVE-1999-1552 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

dpsexec (DPS Server) when running under XDM in IBM AIX 3.2.5 and earlier does not properly check privileges, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges.

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