Is CVE-2006-5172 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2006-5172 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2006-5172?

CVE-2006-5172 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2006-5172?

CVE-2006-5172 has an EPSS score of 14.88% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2006-5172

HIGHEPSS 96th pctl

10.0

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the RPC interface in Mediasvr.exe in Computer Associates (CA) Brightstor ARCserve Backup 9.01 through 11.5, Enterprise Backup 10.5, and CA Protection Suites r2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted SUNRPC packets, aka the "Mediasvr.exe String Handling Overflow," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5171.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

14.88%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.