CVE-2011-1384: IBM Invscout.rte

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) bin/invscoutClient_VPD_Survey and (2) sbin/invscout_lsvpd programs in invscout.rte before 2.2.0.19 on IBM AIX 7.1, 6.1, 5.3, and earlier allow local users to delete arbitrary files, or trigger inventory scout operations on arbitrary files, via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.

Affected products

• IBM Invscout.rte: up to and including 2.2.0.18; version 2.2.0.2 only; version 2.2.0.4 only; version 2.2.0.7 only; version 2.2.0.8 only; version 2.2.0.9 only; …

Published 2012-01-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.