CVE-2006-2393
The client_cmd function in Empire 4.3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by causing…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The client_cmd function in Empire 4.3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by causing long text strings to be appended to the player->client buffer, which causes an invalid memory access.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Empire 4.3.2 - 'strncat' Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1782dos, windowspublished 14 May 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/empiredos-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20060512 Server crash in Empire 4.3.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- empireserver-clientcmd-dos(26525) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20094 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://empserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/empserver/empserver/src/lib/player/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 896 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1798 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-2394 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-2393)Record last updated .