Is CVE-2006-5170 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2006-5170 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2006-5170?

CVE-2006-5170 has a CVSS v2 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2006-5170?

CVE-2006-5170 has an EPSS score of 3.83% (89th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5170?

Upgrade libpam-ldap on debian 11 to 180-1.2 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2006-5170

HIGHEPSS 89th pctl

7.5

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

pam_ldap in nss_ldap on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 3 and earlier, and possibly other distributions does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pam_authenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver.

CWE-755

How to fix

Remediation Available

libpam-ldapDebian

Fixed in:180-1.2CVE-2006-5170

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CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

3.83%probability of exploitation in 30 days

89thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 89% of all known CVEs.

References

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