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CVE-2006-0966

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0966 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in NCP Network Communication Secure Client 8.11 Build 146, and potentially other versions. A local attacker can trigger high CPU consumption, possibly through a buffer overflow, by providing numerous arguments to ncprwsnt.exe. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required to achieve partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.11_build_146CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ncp_network_communications:secure_client:8.11_build_146:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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

lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-March/042640.html
secunia.com / advisories/19082
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25248
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426480/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16906