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CVE-2006-5872

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5872 describes a critical vulnerability in login.pl of SQL-Ledger before version 2.6.21 and LedgerSMB before 1.1.5, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code. This is due to improper handling of the "-e" flag in the script parameter, which is directly passed to the perl program. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 54/100 indicates a notable potential for impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dws_systems_inc.:sql-ledger:2.6.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/23375
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23419
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1239
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/458300/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21634
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5043
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0407
Vendor Advisory