CVE-2013-6886 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting RealVNC VNC 5.0.6 on Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX systems. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by providing a specially crafted argument to the vncserver, vncserver-x11, or Xvnc helper applications. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with no authentication required, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:realvnc:realvnc:5.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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