CVE-2006-5925
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 8.8%EU EUVD
Links web browser 1.00pre12 and Elinks 0.9.2 with smbclient installed allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in an smb:// URI, as demonstrated by using PUT and GET statements.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 8.8% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5908)
- Published
- November 15, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5908 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- elinks / elinks
- links / links
References
- http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=841
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=116355556512780&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22905(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22920(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22923(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23022(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23132(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23188(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23234(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23389(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23467(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24005(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24054(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-16.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017232
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017233
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1228
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1240
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-27.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:216
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0742.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451870/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21082
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30299
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11213
- https://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1226
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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