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CVE-2003-1361: Veritas Bare Metal Restore: Privilege escalation

CVE-2003-1361 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Veritas Bare Metal Restore. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Unknown vulnerability in VERITAS Bare Metal Restore (BMR) of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 3.1.0 through 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges on the BMR Main Server.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Veritas Bare Metal Restore: all versions listed by NVD

References

• http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/252933.htm
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6928
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-02/0333.html
• http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/254442.htm
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11418