CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5558

10.0 HIGH Published 2006-10-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Format string vulnerability in the swask command in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -s argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

Affected configurations

• hp hp-ux 11.00 • hp hp-ux 11.4 • hp hp-ux 11.11 • hp hp-ux 11.23

References