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CVE-2006-3973
My Firewall Plus 5.0 Build 1119 does not verify if explorer.exe is running before launching iexplore.exe from the "Test Your Firewall"…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
My Firewall Plus 5.0 Build 1119 does not verify if explorer.exe is running before launching iexplore.exe from the "Test Your Firewall" feature, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By flexera
- 4 months later
· 4 months 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- 20061121 Secunia Research: My Firewall Plus Privilege EscalationVulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 21142 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21228 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- my-firewall-privilege-escalation(30476) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1017267 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-59/advisory (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2006-3966 (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-2006-3973)Record last updated .