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CVE-2006-0836

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0836 describes a user-assisted denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. An attacker could trick a user into importing a specially crafted LDIF file with an excessively long field into the address book, leading to an unspecified denial of service. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high access complexity and partial availability impact. While no active exploitation is noted, a public exploit (EDB-27246) exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27246 · Feb 17, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0268 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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 0.3 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2006-02/0399.html
Exploit
securityreason.com / securityalert/469
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24810
securityfocus.com / archive/1/425602/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16716
Exploit