CVE-2006-4842
LOW · CVSS 3.6EPSS 7.7%EU EUVD
The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API 4.6.1 and 4.6.2, as used in Sun Solaris 10, trusts user-specified environment variables for specifying log files even when running from setuid programs, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 7.7% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4829)
- Published
- October 12, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4829 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- netscape / portable runtime api
- netscape / portable runtime api
- sun / solaris
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=418(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22348(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017050
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102658-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448691/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20471
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4016(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29489
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1819
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45433/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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