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CVE-2006-0405

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0405 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libtiff version 3.8.0, where a crafted TIFF image can cause an application crash due to a NULL pointer dereference within the TIFFFetchShortPair function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to an availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0289 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-0405

CVE-2006-0405

References

bugzilla.remotesensing.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.remotesensing.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/18587
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20345
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24275
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/18172
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0302
Vendor Advisory