CVE-2006-5072 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Novell Mono's System.CodeDom.Compiler classes. These classes create temporary files with insecure permissions, enabling local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code through a symlink attack. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mono:mono:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mono:mono:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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