CVE-2006-3159 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in Sun ONE/iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16. An attacker can use a symlink attack on the msg.conf file within a user-controlled CONFIGROOT environment variable to read the first line of restricted files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required and it only impacts confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:iplanet_messaging_server:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:one_messaging_server:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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