Security Bulletin: SetGID and SetUID programs in IBM Workload Scheduler can be exploited to obtain privilege escalation (CVE-2018-1386)

Vulnerability Details

Some programs in IBM Workload Scheduler are executed with elevated privileges (SetGID and SetUID programs) and have been compiled to search for libraries in an insecure location, the current directory.
An attacker could place a malicious library in this directory, which would then be loaded when the affected program is run, leading to privilege escalation in instances where the program runs with privileges that the attacker does not have. For example, if the program is SetUID root, the attacker would obtain root privileges upon exploiting this vulnerability.
TWS programs that are affected by this vulnerability are the ones having the following rights: r-s--s--x.

CVEID: CVE-2018-1386
DESCRIPTION: IBM Tivoli Workload Automation for AIX contains directories with improper permissions that could allow a local user to with special access to gain root privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138208 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)