CVE-2006-1248: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.11 only; version 11.23 only

Published 2006-03-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.