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CVE-2006-3084

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3084 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the ftpd and ksu programs of MIT Kerberos 5 (versions up to 1.5 and 1.4.x before 1.4.4) and Heimdal (versions 0.7.2 and earlier). These programs fail to check return codes for setuid calls, potentially allowing local users to gain privileges if setuid fails to drop them. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:heimdal:heimdal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 60th 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

ftp.pdc.kth.se / pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2376
secunia.com / advisories/21402
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21436
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21439
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21461
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21467
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21527
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21613
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23707
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml
securitytracker.com / id
web.mit.edu / Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1146
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/401660
US Government Resource
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html
osvdb.org / 27871
osvdb.org / 27872
pdc.kth.se / heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08
securityfocus.com / archive/1/442599/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/443498/100/100/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/19427
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-334-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3225
Vendor Advisory