CVE-2006-5007 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in uucp in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program involving uux.

Published: 2006-09-27

Score: 4.6 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.2.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-4993	Untrusted search path vulnerability in uucp in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program involving uux.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0008.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README
http://secunia.com/advisories/22105
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016921
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88565
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88614
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20196
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29156

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Aix

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-09-27T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:32:23.035Z

Reserved: 2006-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5007

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-09-27T01:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5007

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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