Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-3053. PoCs published by Hector X. Monsegur.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a vulnerability in IBM AIX's lsmcode utility to escalate privileges to root by manipulating environment variables to create a suid_profile file, which is then used to copy and modify a shell binary with root ownership and setuid permissions.
Description
IBM AIX contains an unspecified vulnerability that would allow a locally authenticated user to obtain root level privileges.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a vulnerability in IBM AIX's lsmcode utility to escalate privileges to root by manipulating environment variables to create a suid_profile file, which is then used to copy and modify a shell binary with root ownership and setuid permissions.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H