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CVE-2006-4266

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4266 describes a vulnerability in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 (and potentially earlier versions) where it fails to adequately protect its own registry keys. This allows a local user with administrative privileges to inject malicious libraries, such as NISProd.dll, by manipulating the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\CCPD\SuiteOwners registry key. While requiring administrative access, this is considered a vulnerability because the product's function is to protect against such actions, leading to a CVSS score of 3.6 with potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2006_9.1.0.33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_personal_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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

securityreason.com / securityalert/1428
matousec.com / info/advisories/Norton-DLL-faking-via-SuiteOwners-protection-bypass.php
securityfocus.com / archive/1/443632/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/19585