CVE-2025-33112 (GCVE-0-2025-33112)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 16:28 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
IBM AIX command execution
Summary
IBM AIX 7.3 and IBM VIOS 4.1.1 Perl implementation could allow a non-privileged local user to exploit a vulnerability to execute arbitrary code due to improper neutralization of pathname input.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-12 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7236103 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM AIX Affected: 7.3
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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IBM VIOS Affected: 4.1.1
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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