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CVE-2008-4018

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 a

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.00048
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

1
ibm aixall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

7.2
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD11 Sep 2008 · 01:13 AM
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References & Sources

13
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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
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