CVE-2006-4517 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Novell iManager versions 2.5 and 2.0.2. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the underlying Tomcat server by sending a specially crafted HTTP POST request with an excessively long TREE parameter, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity with complete availability impact, and does not require authentication or complex attack methods. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:imanager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:imanager:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:imanager:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:imanager:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.