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CVE-2006-6340

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6340 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in nVIDIA nView, specifically affecting the keystone.exe component. Attackers can trigger this by providing an excessively long command line argument, potentially crashing the application. The severity is rated as medium (CVSS 5.0), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, but only resulting in partial availability impact, and it's unclear if it crosses security boundaries. There is no evidence of active exploitation, though a local denial-of-service exploit is available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:nview:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29170 · Nov 23, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

securityreason.com / securityalert/1973
securityfocus.com / archive/1/452439/100/100/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21260