CVE-2006-5010: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in acctctl in IBM AIX 5.3.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the path to point to a malicious mkdir program.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3.0 only

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