CVE-2012-4845: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The FTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly manage privileges in an RBAC environment, which allows attackers to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging the setuid installation of the ftp executable file.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 6.1 only; version 7.1 only
• IBM Vios: version 2.2.1.4 only

Published 2012-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.