CVE-2006-6305 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Net-SNMP 5.3 before 5.3.0.1, when configured using the rocommunity or rouser snmpd.conf tokens, causes Net-SNMP to grant write access to users or communities that only have read-only access.

Published: 2006-12-06

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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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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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-6288	Unspecified vulnerability in Net-SNMP 5.3 before 5.3.0.1, when configured using the rocommunity or rouser snmpd.conf tokens, causes Net-SNMP to grant write access to users or communities that only have read-only access.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00774.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/ChangeLog.html
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/news.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23285
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017355
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=531399
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21503
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30782

History

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Subscriptions

Net-snmp Net-snmp

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-06T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:35.255Z

Reserved: 2006-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6305

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-06T22:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-6305

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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