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Unscored CVE-2007-5804 EUVD-2007-5774GHSA-wjg4-7q94-8q6c

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 …

Published Nov 5, 2007 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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 or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.

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