CVE-2016-3053

high
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.8

Description

IBM AIX contains an unspecified vulnerability that would allow a locally authenticated user to obtain root level privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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/lsmcode_advisory2.asc

Exploits

Exploit-DB

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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