J-Security Center

Title: IBM Hardware Management Console Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: CRITICAL

Description:

IBM Hardware Management Console enables an administrator to manage the configuration and operation of partitions in a computer and to monitor the computer for hardware problems.

The application is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability in unspecified HMC commands.

Currently, very little is known about this issue. We will update this BID as more information emerges.

This issue affects Hardware Management Console Version 3 Release 3.7; other versions may also be affected.

Affected Products:

  • IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) 3.3.7
  • IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) 6.1.3
  • IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) 7.3.2.0

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