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CVE-2006-1649

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1649 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET NOD32 Antivirus versions prior to 2.51.26. The "restore to" function within the quarantine feature allows a local user to restore a quarantined file to any directory readable by the user, bypassing write permissions. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), indicating a significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability if exploited. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset_software:nod32_antivirus:1.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset_software:nod32_antivirus:1.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset_software:nod32_antivirus:1.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset_software:nod32_antivirus:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 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 0.5 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

secunia.com / advisories/19054
securityreason.com / securityalert/672
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25640
osvdb.org / 24393
securityfocus.com / archive/1/429892/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/17374
ExploitPatch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1242