CVE-2018-1890 (GCVE-0-2018-1890)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-11 22:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081.
Severity
CWE
- Gain Privileges
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
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| https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10874750 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107448 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | WebSphere Application Server Patterns |
Affected:
1.0.0.0
Affected: 1.0.0.7 Affected: 2.2.0.0 Affected: 2.2.5.3 |
guessed | |
| IBM | WebSphere Application Server |
Affected:
7.0
Affected: 8.0 Affected: 8.5 Affected: 9.0 Affected: Liberty |
guessed | |
| IBM | Runtimes for Java Technology | guessed |
Date Public
2019-03-01 00:00
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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