CVE-2006-2162 (GCVE-0-2006-2162)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-05-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 17:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Buffer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4 and 2.x before 2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length (Content-Length) HTTP header.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
14 references
Date Public
2006-05-03 00:00
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"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17879"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1662"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26253"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10297806\u0026forum_id=7890"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/282-1/"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "NVD-CWE-Other"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2025-04-25T14:45:58Z",
"cve": "CVE-2006-2162",
"id": "CVE-2006-2162",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:15:31Z",
"product_status:recommended": "6",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2006-2162",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2006-2162.json",
"version": "7"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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