CVE-2006-5214
LOW · CVSS 1.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- EPSS score
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5199)
- Published
- October 10, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5199 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- netbsd / netbsd
- netbsd / netbsd
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
- sun / sunos
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1(Patch)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
- http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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