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CVE-2006-5969

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5969 describes a CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function of fvwm versions 2.5.18 and earlier. This flaw allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by injecting carriage returns into directory names, which are then improperly processed by fvwm-menu-directory. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.5.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fvwm:fvwm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-5969

CVE-2006-5969

References

secunia.com / advisories/22961
secunia.com / advisories/23089
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30452
thread.gmane.org / gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml
gentoo-portage.com / x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog
URL Repurposed