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CVE-2006-2920

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2920 describes a vulnerability in Sylpheed-Claws before version 2.2.2 and Sylpheed before version 2.2.6, where remote attackers can bypass URI checking by prepending a space character to a URI. This flaw facilitates phishing attacks by obscuring the true destination of a link. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network attack vector with high attack complexity and a potential impact limited to partial integrity loss (phishing). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not a high-priority threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0143 is in the 58th 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

secunia.com / advisories/20476
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20577
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/27089
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
sylpheed.good-day.net / en/news.html%5C
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/2173
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/2283
Vendor Advisory