Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5452

Title: Hp Hp-Ux RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5452.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 23, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.60%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5452: Buffer overflow in dtmail on HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F through 5.1B and HP-UX B.11.00 through B.11.23 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -a (aka attachment) argument.

Impacted Vendors

hp 2

compaq 1

Reference Links

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00793091 http://secunia.com/advisories/22451 http://secunia.com/advisories/22528 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017083 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017098 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017099 http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-DTMAIL-20060810.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449321/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20580 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4139 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4140 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29644 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5175 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00793091 http://secunia.com/advisories/22451 http://secunia.com/advisories/22528 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017083 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017098 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017099 http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-DTMAIL-20060810.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449321/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20580 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4139 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4140 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29644 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5175

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5452 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 23, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.