CVE-2006-0966

medium

Description

NCP Network Communication Secure Client 8.11 Build 146, and possibly other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of arguments to ncprwsnt.exe, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25248

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16906

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426480/100/0/threaded

http://secunia.com/advisories/19082

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-March/042640.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-03-02

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00072