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CVE-2006-1218

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1218 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in the HTTP proxy of Novell BorderManager 3.8 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause high CPU consumption and system crashes (ABEND) through unknown attack vectors related to HTTP 1.1 media streaming. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:bordermanager:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:bordermanager:3.8:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 59th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/19163
PatchVendor Advisory
support.novell.com / cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 23752
securityfocus.com / bid/17031
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0879