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CVE-2007-5804

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2007-11-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Ibm Aix

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References