Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2006-7098

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7098 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Debian GNU/Linux 033_-F_NO_SETSID patch for Apache HTTP Server 1.3.34-4. The patch fails to properly disassociate httpd from a controlling tty when started interactively, allowing a local, authenticated user to gain privileges to that tty via a malicious CGI program utilizing the TIOCSTI ioctl. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.6 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with medium attack complexity requiring local access and authentication. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.34.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:apache:1.3.34.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
2.7
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-3384 · Feb 28, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 1,297 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-7098

CVE-2006-7098

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2007-02/0579.html
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
osvdb.org / 33816
secunia.com / advisories/24324
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/32708
securityfocus.com / bid/22732