CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5805

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-11-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 5.2 • ibm aix 5.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References