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CVE-2006-1248
Unspecified vulnerability in usermod in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23, when run with certain options that involve a new home…
Medium4.6EPSS 0.48%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in usermod in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23, when run with certain options that involve a new home directory, might cause usermod to change the ownership of all directories and files under the new directory, which might result in less secure permissions than intended.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 59% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- HPSBUX02102 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 17143 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1015782 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1015834 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- hpux-usermod-unauthorized-access(25311) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:785 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1098 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:772 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0997 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 19305 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
- 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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