CVE-2007-5804: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only

Published 2007-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.