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CVE-2006-3815

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3815 describes an insecure permissions vulnerability in heartbeat.c within Linux-HA Heartbeat versions prior to 2.0.6. This flaw allows local users to cause an unspecified denial of service by exploiting insecure permissions set during a shmget call for shared memory. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low severity with local access and low attack complexity, primarily leading to partial availability impact. While an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-28287) detailing the insecure permissions, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linux-ha:heartbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-28287 · Jul 27, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0078 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

cvs.linux-ha.org / viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/heartbeat/heartbeat.c
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/21162
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21231
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21240
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21521
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21629
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200608-23.xml
securitytracker.com / id
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1128
linux-ha.org / _cache/SecurityIssues__sec03.txt
mail-archive.com / linux-ha-cvs%40lists.linux-ha.org/msg00753.html
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/19186
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-326-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/2994
Vendor Advisory