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CVE-2006-5966

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5966 describes two vulnerabilities in Panda ActiveScan versions prior to 5.54.01. Attackers can remotely reboot a system using the ActiveScan.1 ActiveX control or determine arbitrary file existence and size via the PAVPZ.SOS.1 ActiveX control. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is of medium severity, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to cause partial denial of service (reboot) or information disclosure (file existence/size) with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:panda:activescan:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.53.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:panda:activescan:5.53.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 62nd 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/21763
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / secunia_research/2006-64/advisory
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30317
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30318
securityfocus.com / archive/1/451864/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21132
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4536
Vendor Advisory