CVE-2008-5384

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: 2008-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

crontab in bos.rte.cron in IBM AIX 6.1.0 through 6.1.2 allows local users with aix.system.config.cron authorization to gain privileges by launching an editor.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/aix61_advisory.asc
http://osvdb.org/50218
http://secunia.com/advisories/32916
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ30248
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ34478
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ34783
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32493
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021291
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5612
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/aix61_advisory.asc
http://osvdb.org/50218
http://secunia.com/advisories/32916

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