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CVE-2006-5214

10
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5214 describes a race condition in the Xsession script, affecting X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD, X.Org, and Solaris versions. This flaw allows a brief window where a user's Xsession errors file has weak permissions before a chmod operation, enabling local users to read other users' Xsession error logs. With a CVSS score of 1.2, it is considered low severity, requiring local access and high attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.99.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.99.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
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 55th percentile among its peer group of 747 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 0.2 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-5214Low

xdm race

Feb 16, 2006

References

bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/22323
secunia.com / advisories/22439
secunia.com / advisories/22469
secunia.com / advisories/22992
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Patch
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
netbsd.org / cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/20400
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-364-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3962