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CVE-2006-5725

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5725 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the SSL server of AEP Smartgate 4.3b. Remote attackers can determine the existence of directories by observing differing HTTP status codes for existing versus non-existing directory requests. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for partial confidentiality impact without requiring authentication or complex attack methods. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public exploit for arbitrary file download exists, though it's not directly tied to the directory existence vulnerability. The CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aep_networks:smartgate_ssl_server:4.3b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2637 · Oct 24, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 78th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/22550
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29802
prdelka.blackart.org.uk / exploitz/prdelka-vs-AEP-smartgate.c
Exploit
exploit-db.com / exploits/2637
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4224
Vendor Advisory