CVE-2007-5804

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.

Score
CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2007-11-05
Last modified
2024-08-07

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