VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8972

high
Published 2017-02-15 · 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 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 could allow a local user to gain root privileges using a specially crafted command within the bellmail client. IBM APARs: IV91006, IV91007, IV91008, IV91010, IV91011.

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/bellmail_advisory.asc

Exploits

Exploit-DB

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmvios2.2.1.5
ibmvios2.2.1.6
ibmvios2.2.1.7
ibmvios2.2.1.8
ibmvios2.2.0.0
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
ibmvios2.2.2.0
ibmvios2.2.2.1
ibmvios2.2.2.2
ibmvios2.2.2.3
ibmvios2.2.2.4
ibmvios2.2.2.6
ibmvios2.2.2.70
ibmvios2.2.3.0
ibmvios2.2.3.1
ibmvios2.2.3.2
ibmvios2.2.3.3
ibmvios2.2.3.4
ibmvios2.2.3.50
ibmvios2.2.3.51
ibmvios2.2.3.52
ibmvios2.2.3.60
ibmvios2.2.3.70
ibmvios2.2.3.80
ibmvios2.2.4.0
ibmvios2.2.4.10
ibmvios2.2.4.21
ibmvios2.2.4.22
ibmvios2.2.4.23
ibmvios2.2.4.30
ibmvios2.2.5.0
ibmvios2.2.5.10

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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