CVE-2006-6165 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

ld.so in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD distributions does not remove certain harmful environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing certain environment variables to loading processes. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, stating that it is the responsibility of the application to properly sanitize the environment

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00141.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:::::::*

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded

History

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-29T06:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-17T14:08:58.926Z

Reserved: 2006-11-28T05:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6165

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:34.506Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-11-29T01:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6165

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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