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CVE-2006-5072

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 1,595 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 0.1 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

fedoranews.org / cms/node/2401
secunia.com / advisories/22237
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22277
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22614
secunia.com / advisories/23154
secunia.com / advisories/23213
secunia.com / advisories/23776
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200611-23.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29353
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html
securityfocus.com / bid/20340
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-357-1
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3911