01 Record
CVE-2007-4621
Buffer overflow in crontab in IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to gain privileges via long command line arguments.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Buffer overflow in crontab in IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to gain privileges via long command line arguments.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.37% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 31.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-11-05 16:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-08-30
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9b856c946aa0546935d657e85c95ca819fde2c89af74ec37e03fbdce793da816
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- secunia.com27437http://secunia.com/advisories/27437
- www.securityfocus.com26263http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26263
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comaix-crontab-bo(38164)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38164
- labs.idefense.com20071031 IBM AIX 5.2 crontab BSS Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilityhttp://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=612
- securitytracker.com1018871http://securitytracker.com/id?1018871
- www.ibm.comIZ04832http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ04832
- aix.software.ibm.comftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/crontab_ifix.tar
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3669http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3669