CVE-2008-5384: IBM Aix

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

crontab in bos.rte.cron in IBM AIX 6.1.0 through 6.1.2 allows local users with aix.system.config.cron authorization to gain privileges by launching an editor.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 6.1 only; version 6.1.1 only; version 6.1.2 only

Published 2008-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.