CVE-2008-1600: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The lsmcode program on IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 does not properly handle environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1329.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 6.1 only

Published 2008-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.