CVE-2006-3159

medium

Description

pipe_master in Sun ONE/iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003) allows local users to read portions of restricted files via a symlink attack on msg.conf in a directory identified by the CONFIGROOT environment variable, which returns the first line of the file in an error message.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27220

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2633

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18749

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102496-1

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016416

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016312

http://secunia.com/advisories/20919

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/046920.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-06-22

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00079