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CVE-2006-5214
Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8…
- 1.2LowCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.
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 | Low1.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% 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: Low 1.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References13
- 1017015 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 22992 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3962 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 22469 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1760 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 22323 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20400 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 102652 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- USN-364-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22439 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2006-5199 (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-2006-5214)Record last updated .