CVE-2007-5805

Published Nov 5, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-5775 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.
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PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:47 PM
Reserved
Nov 5, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 5, 2007, 5:46 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:46 PM