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CVE-2006-3159
pipe_master in Sun ONE/iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003) allows local users to read portions of restricted…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.34%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 72% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
pipe_master in Sun ONE/iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003) allows local users to read portions of restricted files via a symlink attack on msg.conf in a directory identified by the CONFIGROOT environment variable, which returns the first line of the file in an error message.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 1016416 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 102496 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 1016312 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- iplanet-msgconf-symlink(27220) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-2633 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20060614 Sun iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 root password compromise (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 18749 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20919 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2006-3156 (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-2006-3159)Record last updated .