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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5215 Detail

Deferred

This CVE record is not being prioritized for NVD enrichment efforts due to resource or other concerns.

Description

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.
CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score: N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.
CVSS 2.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST: NVD
Base Score: 2.6 LOW
Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Evaluator Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product updates: X.org, xdm, 2006年03月17日 NetBSD, NetBSD, Current 2006年02月12日 Sun, Solaris, 10 2006年10月06日

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992 CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015 CVE, MITRE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1 CVE, MITRE
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm CVE, MITRE
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32805 CVE, MITRE
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5898 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29427 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2205 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST

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Change History

10 change records found show changes

CVE Modified by CVE 11/20/2024 7:18:20 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
Added Reference 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
Added Reference 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1
Added Reference 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
Added Reference 
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32805
Added Reference 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5898
Added Reference 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29427
Added Reference 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2205

CVE Modified by MITRE 5/13/2024 9:39:57 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 10/30/2018 12:26:23 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed CPE Configuration 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 10/30/2018 12:25:25 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed CPE Configuration 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 10/30/2018 12:25:25 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed CPE Configuration 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 10/30/2018 12:25:37 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed CPE Configuration 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 10/30/2018 12:25:37 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed CPE Configuration 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVE Modified by MITRE 10/10/2017 9:31:18 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2205 [No Types Assigned]
Removed Reference 
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2205 [Tool Signature, US Government Resource]

CVE Modified by MITRE 7/19/2017 9:33:36 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29427 [No Types Assigned]
Removed Reference 
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29427 [No Types Assigned]

Initial CVE Analysis 10/12/2006 11:49:00 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5215
NVD Published Date:
10/10/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE

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