Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- IBM OmniFind - Local Privilege Escalation EDB-15475 · local · Nov 9, 2010
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References
- 20101109 IBM OmniFind - several vulnerabilities mailing-list
- 15475 exploit
- 44740 vdb-entry
- http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
- ADV-2010-2933 vdb-entry