CVE-2006-5558

no score yetEPSS 7.7%

hp hp-ux: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2006-10-27
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

hp:hp-ux

References

http://blogs.23.nu/prdelka/stories/13144/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20726
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5804
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2635
http://blogs.23.nu/prdelka/stories/13144/

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