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CVE-2006-2073

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2073 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in ISC BIND, triggered by a specially crafted DNS message containing a "broken" TSIG. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0799 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-2073

CVE-2006-2073

References

secunia.com / advisories/19808
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26081
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/955777
US Government Resource
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html
Vendor Advisory
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/17692
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1505
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1537