CVE-2008-4018

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5805.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc
http://secunia.com/advisories/31739
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020818
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30999
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2490
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44903

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