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CVE-2006-0538

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0538 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in CipherTrust IronMail 5.0.1 when its "Denial of Service Protection" feature is enabled. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a SYN flood with malformed TCP packets from multiple connections, potentially leading to high CPU consumption. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high access complexity and partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ciphertrust:ironmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0209 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/407
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24445
securityfocus.com / archive/1/423898/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16465