CVE-2007-4798: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only

Published 2007-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.