CVE detail
CVE-2007-5805 — CVE-2007-5805
Published 2007-11-05 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor ibm · Product aix · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0031
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
23.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References