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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2006-1509 json

/sbin/passwd in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23 before 20060326 "does not recover gracefully from some error conditions," which allows…

published 2006-03-30 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1513

cvss
4.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

/sbin/passwd in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23 before 20060326 "does not recover gracefully from some error conditions," which allows local users to cause a denial of service.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.