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CVE-2006-6719

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6719 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU wget version 1.10.2. A remote, malicious FTP server can crash the application by sending numerous blank 220 responses to the SYST command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to an availability impact. While no active exploitation or Metasploit modules are reported, an ExploitDB entry exists, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2947 · Dec 18, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0414 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-6719Low

Wget attempts to dereference NULL pointer upon response from malicious FTP server

Dec 18, 2006

References

issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-930
exploit-db.com / exploits/2947
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/21650
Exploit