CVE-2019-4236
lowpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.003 · 25 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
A IBM Spectrum Protect 7.l client backup or archive operation running for an HP-UX VxFS object is silently skipping Access Control List (ACL) entries from backup or archive if there are more than twelve ACL entries associated with the object in total. As a result, it could allow a local attacker to restore or retrieve the object with incorrect ACL entries. IBM X-Force ID: 159418.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.6–5.1
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affected products (2)
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references (11)
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- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10884766cnnvd
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159418cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-4236cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/IBM-Spectrum-Protect-Backup-Archive-Client-read-write-access-via-VxFS-HP-UX-Filesystems-29828cnnvd
- https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10884766Patchcnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.2708/cnnvd
- https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10884766cnnvd
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159418enisa_euvd
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