CVE-2007-5805: 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 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.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only

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