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CVE-2006-1246
Unspecified vulnerability in mklvcopy in BOS.RTE.LVM in IBM AIX 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands when mklvcopy calls…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in mklvcopy in BOS.RTE.LVM in IBM AIX 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands when mklvcopy calls external commands, possibly due to an untrusted search path vulnerability.
Timeline
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By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References10
- 1015786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0957 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17115 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- aix-mklvcopy-code-execution(25849) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 23921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- aix-bosrtelvm-gain-privileges(25299) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IY82739 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 20060323 IBM changing significant details? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VIMx_transferred
- 19235 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0602.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-1250 (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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