CVE-2006-4688
Buffer overflow in Client Service for NetWare (CSNW) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003 up to SP1 allows remote…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 75.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in Client Service for NetWare (CSNW) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003 up to SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted messages, aka "Client Service for NetWare Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules2 modules
- MS06-066 Microsoft Services nwapi32.dll Module Exploit (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/smb/ms06_066_nwapiRank gooddisclosed 14 Nov 2006
- MS06-066 Microsoft Services nwwks.dll Module Exploit (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/smb/ms06_066_nwwksRank gooddisclosed 14 Nov 2006
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Microsoft Services - 'nwapi32.dll' (MS06-066) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16373remote, windowspublished 25 Aug 2010Verified
- Microsoft Services - 'nwwks.dll' (MS06-066) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16369remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
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 microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 75.7% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1017224 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA06-318A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 21023 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS06-066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4504 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:404 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20061116 Vulnerabilities in Client Service for NetWare (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ms-csnw-bo(29952) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 22866 (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-2006-4675 (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-2006-4688)Record last updated .