CVE-2007-6594: IBM Lotus Notes

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

IBM Lotus Notes 8 for Linux before 8.0.1 uses (1) unspecified weak permissions for the installation kit obtained through a Notes 8 download and (2) 0777 permissions for the installdata file that is created by setup.sh, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

Affected products

• IBM Lotus Notes: up to and including 8.0.1

Published 2007-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.