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CVE-2007-5804

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Published: Nov 5, 2007Modified: Apr 23, 2026

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6.9
Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Exploitability: 3.4 / Impact: 10.0
Source: NVD

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

Affected (2)

Products: Ibm: Aix
1 product
Aix
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Ibm
Version 5.2
Version 5.3

References (16)

ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cfgcon_ifix.tar (unsafe URL)
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cfgcon_ifix.tar (unsafe URL)
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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