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CVE-2006-6762

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6762 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the IMAP daemon in Novell NetMail versions prior to 3.52e FTF2. An authenticated remote attacker can trigger this by sending an APPEND command with a single parenthesis in the argument, causing the service to become unavailable. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only leads to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.5.2:a:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.5.2:b:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.5.2:c:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.5.2:c1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:netmail:3.5.2:d:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 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 0.1 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

labs.idefense.com / intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/23437
PatchVendor Advisory
secure-support.novell.com / KanisaPlatform/Publishing/328/3717068_f.SAL_Public.html
Patch
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/944273
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/21729
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/5134