Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in shell affects Power Hardware Management Console ( CVE-2021-29707).

Summary

shell terminal is used by Power Hardware Management Console (HMC). HMC has addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-29707
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM HMC (Hardware Management Console) could allow a local user to escalate their privileges to root access on a restricted shell.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/200879 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: <http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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VRMF

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APAR

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Remediation/Fix

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Power HMC

|

V9.1.940.0 SP2 ppc

|

MB04287

|

MH01896

Power HMC

|

V9.1.940.0 SP2 x86_64

|

MB04286

|

MH01895

Power HMC

|

V9.2.950.0 SP1 ppc

|

MB04285

|

MH01893

Power HMC

|

V9.2.950.0 SP1 x86_64

|

MB04284

|

MH01892

Workarounds and Mitigations

None