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CVE-2006-6498

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6498 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities within the JavaScript engine of various Mozilla products, including Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Mozilla 1.7 and earlier versions on Solaris. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service through memory corruption and crashes, with the potential for arbitrary code execution via unknown attack vectors. The CVSS score of 6.8 indicates a medium severity, with a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0432 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.7-0.1.el2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.7-0.1.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: firefox-0:1.5.0.9-0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: devhelp-0:0.10-0.6.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: seamonkey-0:1.0.7-0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: thunderbird-0:1.5.0.9-0.1.el4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-6498Critical

security flaw

Dec 19, 2006

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h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23282
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23420
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23422
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secunia.com / advisories/23433
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secunia.com / advisories/23439
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secunia.com / advisories/23440
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secunia.com / advisories/23468
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secunia.com / advisories/23514
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secunia.com / advisories/23545
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secunia.com / advisories/23589
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secunia.com / advisories/23591
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secunia.com / advisories/23601
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secunia.com / advisories/23614
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23618
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secunia.com / advisories/23672
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secunia.com / advisories/23988
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secunia.com / advisories/24078
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24390
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secunia.com / advisories/25556
Vendor Advisory
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securitytracker.com / id
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US Government Resource
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US Government Resource
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US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5068
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2106
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0083