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CVE-2008-4018
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30999
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31739
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020818
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2490
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44903
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5