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CVE-2006-5004
Unspecified vulnerability in the rdist command in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the rdist command in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
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 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% 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: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- 20194 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- aix-rdist-file-overwrite(29159) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IY88688 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IY88687 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3770 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 22099 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1016922 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2006-4990 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-5004)Record last updated .