CVE-2011-4834

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2011-4834 · Published 15/12/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-4834 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting application lifestyle management (hp).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 66.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
application lifestyle management hp	`= 11`	No fix yet

Description

The GetInstalledPackages function in the configuration tool in HP Application Lifestyle Management (ALM) 11 on AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a Trojan horse /tmp/tmp.txt FIFO or (2) a symlink attack on /tmp/tmp.txt.

References

0a29.blogspot.com/2011/12/0a29-11-2-privilege-escalation.html · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/47040 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/archive/1/520783/100/0/threaded
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71698

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