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CVE-2006-6481

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6481 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) version 0.88.6. Remote attackers can trigger a stack overflow and application crash by crafting a malicious email or file with many nested layers of multipart/mixed content. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.88.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.88.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0366 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

docs.info.apple.com / article.html
kolab.org / security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
osvdb.org / 31283
secunia.com / advisories/23347
secunia.com / advisories/23362
secunia.com / advisories/23379
secunia.com / advisories/23404
secunia.com / advisories/23411
secunia.com / advisories/23417
secunia.com / advisories/23460
secunia.com / advisories/29420
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1238
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html
quantenblog.net / security/virus-scanner-bypass
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/21609
trustix.org / errata/2006/0072
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4948
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5113
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0924/references