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CVE-2006-7175

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7175 describes a vulnerability in Sendmail 8.13.1-2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier, where administrators cannot disable SSLv2 encryption, potentially forcing the use of less secure communication channels. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this network-exploitable vulnerability could lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei modules. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, indicating a low level of public attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.13.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0082 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-7175

Sendmail allows SSLv2 during STARTTLS, and the CipherList config option isn't supported so you can't turn it off

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi