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CVE-2006-7250

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7250 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenSSL versions 0.9.8t and earlier, specifically within the mime_hdr_cmp function. A remote attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by sending a specially crafted S/MIME message. The 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, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low current threat relevance.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.8tCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.1c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.2b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.3a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0699 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openssl-0:0.9.8e-12.el5
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openssl
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openssl096b
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openssl097a

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-7250Moderate

openssl: mime_hdr_cmp NULL dereference crash

Aug 29, 2006

References

cvs.openssl.org / chngview
Patch
marc.info
marc.info
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/36533
secunia.com / advisories/48153
secunia.com / advisories/48516
secunia.com / advisories/48899
mail-archive.com / openssl-dev%40openssl.org/msg30305.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/02/27/10
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/02/28/14
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1335.html
securityfocus.com / bid/52181
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1424-1