CVE-2008-4018: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 6.1 only

Published 2008-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.