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CVE-2006-2789

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2789 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Evolution 2.2.x and 2.3.x within GNOME 2.7 and 2.8. When the "load images if sender in addressbook" option is enabled, a remote attacker can send a specially crafted email with a malformed "From" header, causing a persistent crash due to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and only a partial impact on availability. 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
2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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 0.3 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-2006-2789

CVE-2006-2789

References

bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/18212