CVE-2006-5006: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in cfgmgr in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long directory path argument.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.3.0 only

Published 2006-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.