Buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso Chetcpasswd

CVE-2006-6684

Heap-based buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (86.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2006-6684: held from 0.029 to 0.030.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.030 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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