{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38955 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-38955 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-38955 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Aix, published on 1 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-38955 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-38955 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Aix, published on 1 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38955 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Ibm Aix. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38955/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38955/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-38955","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38955/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-38955","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-2pmc-64pj-g4gv"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM AIX OS","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local user with elevated privileges can cause a denial of service in IBM AIX and VIOS via a file creation vulnerability in audit commands.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"aix","vendor":"ibm"},{"product":"vios","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/A:H/UI:N/AV:L/C:N/PR:H/I:N/S:U/AC:L/RL:O/RC:C/E:U","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and VIOS 3.1 could allow a local user with elevated privileges to cause a denial of service due to a file creation vulnerability in the audit commands. IBM X-Force ID: 211825.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in AIX","id":"CVE-2021-38955","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ibm:aix","products":["ibm:aix","ibm:vios"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Security Verify Access","id":"CVE-2021-38956"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Sterling B2B Integrator","id":"CVE-2021-38954"},"products":["AIX","VIOS"],"published":"2022-03-01","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"AIX Code Execution","id":"CVE-2025-36250","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-11-13"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"IBM AIX command execution","id":"CVE-2024-56346","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-18"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2010-3187","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-08-30"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3699","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-10-15"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3517","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-10-01"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-5008","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2006-09-27"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2005-4272","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-12-15"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"A local user with elevated privileges can cause a denial of service in IBM AIX and VIOS via a file creation vulnerability in audit commands.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38955/"}