CVE-2008-4018

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
11/09/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*