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CVE-2006-0040

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0040 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME Evolution versions 2.4.2.1 and earlier, where a specially crafted email containing numerous URLs can exhaust CPU and memory resources. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0195 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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, 0.1 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: evolution

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-0040Moderate

DoS from large email

Mar 1, 2006

References

secunia.com / advisories/19094
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25050
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426452/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16899
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0801