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Fencer Vulns
high 7.6

CVE-2006-1900 in the critical feed json

Multiple buffer overflows in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Amaya 9.4, and possibly other versions including 8.x before 8.8.5, allow remot…

published 2006-04-20 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1900

cvss
7.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.9%
EPSS 16.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Amaya 9.4, and possibly other versions including 8.x before 8.8.5, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long value in (1) the COMPACT attribute of the COLGROUP element, (2) the ROWS attribute of the TEXTAREA element, and (3) the COLOR attribute of the LEGEND element; and via other unspecified attack vectors consisting of "dozens of possible snippets."

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-27640)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

16.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-27640 W3C Amaya 9.4 - legend color Attribute Value Overflow dos, 2006-04-13
  • EDB-27639 W3C Amaya 9.4 - textarea rows Attribute Value Overflow dos, 2006-04-13
  • morph3us.org http://morph3us.org/advisories/20060412-amaya-94.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17507 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • morph3us.org http://morph3us.org/advisories/20060412-amaya-94-2.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.