CVE-2006-5969

high

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function in fvwm 2.5.18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via carriage returns in a directory name, which is not properly handled by fvwm-menu-directory, a variant of CVE-2003-1308.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419

http://secunia.com/advisories/23089

http://secunia.com/advisories/22961

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-11-17

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00063