CVE-2007-5805

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

IBM AIX: 5.2, 5.3

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=611
http://secunia.com/advisories/27437
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03055
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03061
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26258
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200710%2FSECURITY%2F20071030%2Fdatafile100405
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38154
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=611
http://secunia.com/advisories/27437
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03055

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