CVE-2007-5804 in AIX

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 11/05/2007
• Disclosure: 11/05/2007
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-39551
• CPE: ready
• CWE: Unknown
• CVSS: 8.4
• EPSS: 0.00050
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5804
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5804
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-5804/