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CVE-2006-2393

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2393 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Empire 4.3.2 and earlier, affecting the empire_server component. Remote attackers can crash the application by sending excessively long text strings, leading to an invalid memory access within the client_cmd function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network-based attack vector and a partial impact on availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:empire_server:empire_server:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:empire_server:empire_server:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1782 · May 14, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0376 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

aluigi.altervista.org / adv/empiredos-adv.txt
ExploitPatch
empserver.cvs.sourceforge.net / empserver/empserver/src/lib/player
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/20094
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/896
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26525
securityfocus.com / archive/1/433940/100/0/threaded
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1798