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CVE-2006-1892

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1892 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in avast! 4 Linux Home Edition 1.0.5, allowing an attacker to modify permissions of arbitrary files through a symlink attack on a temporary directory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low severity with local access required and no authentication, but with a complete impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any known public exploit codes or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE. Its EPSS and FAUCET scores are very low, further suggesting a minimal current risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:1.0.5:*:home:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 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/19683
securityreason.com / securityalert/712
securityreason.com / securityalert/764
securityfocus.com / archive/1/431019/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/17535
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1387