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CVE-2006-6660

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6660 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the nodeType function of KDE libkhtml versions 4.2.0 and earlier, impacting applications like Konquerer and KMail. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash affected programs through malformed HTML tags, potentially involving a COL SPAN tag within a RANGE tag. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability requiring user interaction for exploitation, leading to a partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA KEV, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:libkhtml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2954 · Dec 19, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0248 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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-2006-6660

CVE-2006-6660

References

downloads.securityfocus.com / vulnerabilities/exploits/21662.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/21662
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5071