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CVE-2006-2224

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2224 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in the RIPd component of Quagga routing software versions 0.98 and 0.99 prior to 20060503. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject routing state via specially crafted RIPv1 RESPONSE packets, despite RIPv2 authentication requirements. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to unauthorized modification of routing information. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, an exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, indicating its potential for exploitation. Despite the existence of public exploit code, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.99.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga_routing_software_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.95CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga_routing_software_suite:0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.96.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga_routing_software_suite:0.96.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.96.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga_routing_software_suite:0.96.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.98.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga_routing_software_suite:0.98.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27802 · May 3, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1036 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: quagga-0:0.96.2-11.3E
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: quagga-0:0.98.3-2.4E
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-2224Moderate

security flaw

May 3, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc
bugzilla.quagga.net / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/19910
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20137
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20138
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20221
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20420
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20421
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20782
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21159
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26251
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10775
usn.ubuntu.com / 284-1
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1059
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-15.xml
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_17_sr.html
osvdb.org / 25225
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0525.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0533.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/432823/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/432856/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/17808
ExploitPatch