CVE-2007-5805

MediumCVSS 6.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 5, 2007
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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