CVE-2009-3517: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

nfs.ext in IBM AIX 5.3.x through 5.3.9 and 6.1.0 through 6.1.2 does not properly use the nfs_portmon setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for NFSv4 shares via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3.0 only; version 5.3.7 only; version 5.3.8 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.1 only; …

Published 2009-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.