{"cve":"CVE-2009-2669","nvd":{"published":"2009-08-05T19:30:01.127","modified":"2026-06-16T23:09:57.700","status":"Modified","description":"A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-264"],"references":["http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc","http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815","http://secunia.com/advisories/36156","http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090","http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091"],"products":["ibm:aix"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:54:26.868835795+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2009-2669","score":0.00721,"percentile":0.53981,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}