CVE-2008-4018

Published Sep 11, 2008

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Configurations

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  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "17EECCCB-D7D1-439A-9985-8FAE8B44487B"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "EA8DDF4A-1C5D-4CB1-95B3-69EAE6572507"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "FD518B94-9CD7-4C45-8766-578CF427B4CF"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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