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…

PriorityP419medium6.9CVSS 2.0

AVLACMAuNCCICAC

EPSS

0.31%

23.0th percentile

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 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ibm	aix	—	—
ibm	aix	—	—

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