CVE-2006-6623
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6.2808 relies on the Process Environment Block (PEB) to identify a process, which allows local users to bypass the product's controls on a process by spoofing the (1) ImagePathName, (2) CommandLine, and (3) WindowTitle fields in the PEB.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6606)
- Published
- December 18, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6606 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- avg / antivirus plus firewall
- comodo / comodo personal firewall
- filseclab / personal firewall
- infoprocess / antihook
- soft4ever / look n stop
- symantec / sygate personal firewall
References
- http://www.matousec.com/downloads/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/ex-coat.zip
- http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Bypassing-process-identification-serveral-personal-firewalls-HIPS.php(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454522/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21615
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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