Is CVE-2006-6170 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2006-6170 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2006-6170?

CVE-2006-6170 has a CVSS v2 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2006-6170?

CVE-2006-6170 has an EPSS score of 17.31% (97th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2006-6170

HIGHEPSS 97th pctl

7.5

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in the tls_x509_name_oneline function in the mod_tls module, as used in ProFTPD 1.3.0a and earlier, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large data length argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5815.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

17.31%probability of exploitation in 30 days

97thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.

References

http://elegerov.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-remember-2-years-old-overflow.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050935.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23141
http://secunia.com/advisories/23174
http://secunia.com/advisories/23179
http://secunia.com/advisories/23184
http://secunia.com/advisories/23207
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.502491
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1222
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-26.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:217-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452228/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452872/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452993/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21326
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4745
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214820
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30554

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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.