Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2007-5805
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.9
EPSS
0.31%
Original Filing — NVD 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.