High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 14, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-1386

Description

IBM Tivoli Workload Automation for AIX (IBM Workload Scheduler 8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4) contains directories with improper permissions that could allow a local user to with special access to gain root privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 138208.

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Affected products

IBM/Tivoli Workload Automation for AIXllm-create
Range: 8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
IBM/IBM Workload Schedulerllm-create
Range: 8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
IBM/Tivoli Workload Schedulercpe-rescue
Range: 8.6

Patches

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References

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138208nvdVDB EntryVendor Advisory

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