CVE-2006-6165

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track*

*SSVC

Descriptions

ld.so in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD distributions does not remove certain harmful environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing certain environment variables to loading processes. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, stating that it is the responsibility of the application to properly sanitize the environment

** IMPUGNADA ** ld.so en FreeBSD, NetBSD, u posiblemente otras distribuciones BSD no borran ciertas variables de entorno perjudiciales, lo cual permite a usuarios locales obtener privilegios pasando cierta variables de entorno a procesos de carga. NOTA: este asunto ha sido impugnado por una tercera parte, afirmando que es responsabilidad de la aplicación limpiar adecuadamente el entorno.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track*

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Total

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2006-11-28 CVE Reserved
2006-11-29 CVE Published
2025-01-17 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd"		Freebsd Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd"				6.2 Search vendor "Freebsd" for product "Freebsd" and version "6.2"		stable		Affected
Netbsd Search vendor "Netbsd"		Netbsd Search vendor "Netbsd" for product "Netbsd"				2.0.4 Search vendor "Netbsd" for product "Netbsd" and version "2.0.4"		-		Affected