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high 7.5

CVE-2006-5925 json

Links web browser 1.00pre12 and Elinks 0.9.2 with smbclient installed allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metachara…

published 2006-11-15 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5908

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.8%
EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Links web browser 1.00pre12 and Elinks 0.9.2 with smbclient installed allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in an smb:// URI, as demonstrated by using PUT and GET statements.

Patch / fix

  • elinks Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.11.1-1.2
  • links2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1pre25-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5925

  • elinks RHEL 4 0.9.2-3.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0742

  • elinks openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.13~0.20190723-1.14

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10734-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-5925 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 elinks 0.9.2-3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 elinks 0.9.2-3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 elinks 0.9.2-3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 elinks 0.9.2-3.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0742

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-2784)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

8.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-29033 Links_ ELinks 'smbclient' - Remote Command Execution remote, 2006-11-18
  • EDB-2784 Links 1.00pre12 - 'smbclient' Remote Code Execution remote, 2006-11-14

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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