CVE-2008-4018
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (33th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4003)
- Published
- September 11, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4003 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31739
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020818
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30999
- 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%3A5932
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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