CVE-2008-4018
IBM AIX swcons bos.rte.console Privilege Escalation
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Sept. 11, 2008, 1:13 a.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:50 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31739 Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1020818 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341 Added Reference http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30999 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2490 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44903 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5932 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5932 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5932 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 08, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44903 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44903 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Sep. 11, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-4018 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2008-4018
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.04 }} 0.00%
score
0.08236
percentile