CVE-2006-5558: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the swask command in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -s argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.4 only; version 11.11 only; version 11.23 only

Published 2006-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.