CVE-2014-8904

high
Published 2015-01-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.2

Description

lquerylv in cmdlvm in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2.x allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted DBGCMD_LQUERYLV environment-variable value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/lvm_advisory.asc

Exploits

Exploit-DB

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmvios2.2.0.10
ibmvios2.2.0.11
ibmvios2.2.0.12
ibmvios2.2.0.13
ibmvios2.2.1.0
ibmvios2.2.1.1
ibmvios2.2.1.3
ibmvios2.2.1.4
ibmvios2.2.1.5
ibmvios2.2.1.6
ibmvios2.2.1.7
ibmvios2.2.1.8
ibmvios2.2.1.9
ibmvios2.2.2.0
ibmvios2.2.2.1
ibmvios2.2.2.2
ibmvios2.2.2.3
ibmvios2.2.2.4
ibmvios2.2.2.5
ibmvios2.2.3.0
ibmvios2.2.3.1
ibmvios2.2.3.2
ibmvios2.2.3.3
ibmvios2.2.3.4

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.