CVE-2008-4018
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,…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 66% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 66% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31739 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- IZ18335 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2490 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- IZ18334 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IZ18338 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- ibm-aix-swcons-code-execution(44903) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IZ28943 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IZ18339 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 30999 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- IZ18341 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 1020818 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5932 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4003 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-4018)Record last updated .