Vulnerability in Ibm Aix

CVE-2007-5805

cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, via a symlink attack involving use of the file's name as the argument. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5804.

EPSS: 0.003 (23.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Ibm Aix — versions 5.2, 5.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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