Overview
IBM Power 5 Service Processor contain a vulnerability which could allow an attacker to operate with elevated privileges.
Description
IBM's security advisory states, "A security issue has been identified on IBM Power 5 Systems such that the firewall code does not get executed in certain network configurations leading to elevated privilege. The issue only exists on Service Processor for IBM Power 5 Systems listed below and has not been found to exist in any other IBM System." |
Impact
An attacker with access to the IBM Power 5 Service Processor could escalate their privileges allowing them to to perform administrative functions on the system. |
Solution
Update
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IBM's security advisory states the following workaround, "Configure (any) Static IP addresses on at least one Ethernet interface of the IBM Service processor." |
Vendor Information
IBM's security advisory states the following affected products and versions are affected by this vulnerability: |
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 7.9 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| Temporal | 6.2 | E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C |
| Environmental | 1.8 | CDP:LM/TD:L/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Brian Smith for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Michael Orlando.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2012-4856 |
| Date Public: | 2012-11-19 |
| Date First Published: | 2012-12-12 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2013-01-02 13:43 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 15 |