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CVE-2006-1091

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1091 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus versions 5.0.5 and 5.5.3, allowing remote attackers to exhaust CPU and memory resources through unspecified attack vectors. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a complete impact on availability. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kaspersky_lab:kaspersky_anti-virus:5.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kaspersky_lab:kaspersky_anti-virus:5.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0280 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/535
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25221
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426699
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/16942