Is CVE-2006-5779 being actively exploited?

CVE-2006-5779 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2006-5779?

CVE-2006-5779 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

CVE-2006-5779

HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 76.9%EU EUVD

OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names, which triggers an assertion failure.

Key facts

CVSS score: 7.5 (v3.1)
Severity: HIGH
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-617
EPSS score: 76.9% (100th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2006-5763)
Published: November 7, 2006
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5763 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
openldap / openldap

References

http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz(Broken Link, Exploit)
http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml(Broken Link, Exploit)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22750(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22953(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22996(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23125(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23133(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23152(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23170(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml(Third Party Advisory)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831(Broken Link)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166(Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:208(Broken Link)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_72_openldap2.html(Broken Link)
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740(Exploit, Issue Tracking)
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033-openldap.html(Broken Link)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20939(Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/(Broken Link)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-384-1(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4379(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30076(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820(Broken Link)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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