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CVE-2006-6698

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6698 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GConf daemon (gconfd) version 2.14.0, affecting Gnome. A local attacker can create specific directories based on usernames, preventing other users from initializing Gnome sessions. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.9, indicating a local attack vector with medium complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gconf:2.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2006-6698Low

GConfd uses non-unique directory name in /tmp leading to local DoS

References

bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/23452
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/21762
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5148