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CVE-2006-0098

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0098 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenBSD versions 3.7 and 3.8. The dupfdopen function in sys/kern/kern_descrip.c allows local users to re-open arbitrary files by leveraging setuid programs to access file descriptors via /dev/fd/. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low severity with local access required and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 3,052 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ftp.openbsd.org / pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.7/common/008_fd.patch
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/18296
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
openbsd.org / errata37.html
Patch
osvdb.org / 22231
securityfocus.com / bid/16144
Patch