CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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8.4 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in IBM AIX 5.2/5.3 (Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The bug was discovered 10/25/2007. The weakness was released 11/05/2007 by Alex DeLarge (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at www14.software.ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-5804 since 11/05/2007. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/23/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1861 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (38154). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 3421, 3428, 3427 and 3424.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4
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VulDB Temp Score: 8.4
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Local Privilege EscalationCWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
10/01/2002 🔍05/11/2007 🔍
10/25/2007 🔍
10/30/2007 🔍
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08/23/2019 🔍
Sources
Vendor: ibm.comAdvisory: www14.software.ibm.com
Researcher: Alex DeLarge
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-5804 (🔍)
X-Force: 38154
Vulnerability Center: 20423 - IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 Swcons Allows Local Creation and Overwrite of Arbitrary Files, Medium
SecurityFocus: 26258 - IBM AIX Swcons Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability
Secunia: 27437
OSVDB: 40401 - IBM AIX swcons insecure permissions
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Entry
Created: 03/16/2015 12:18Updated: 08/23/2019 12:18
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (60), 08/23/2019 12:18 (6)
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