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CVE-2006-5297Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem,…
- 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 safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.
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:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (12 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
- 25529 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [mutt-dev] 20061004 security problem with temp files [was Re: mutt_adv_mktemp() ?] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20733 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10601 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 2006-0061 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- 22640 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22613 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22685 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22686 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-373-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0386 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4176 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:190 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_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-2006-5282 (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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