CVE-2007-5804

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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 or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.

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 or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 17 years ago

2007-11-05 17:46:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cfgcon_ifix.tar

Patch

20071030 IBM AIX swcons Local Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability

27437

26258

Patch

IZ03055

IZ03061

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200710%2FSECURITY%2F20071030%2Fdatafile100405

Patch

aix-swcons-insecure-permissions(38154)

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