THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-5201
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-5201

Nss vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Multiple packages on Sun Solaris, including (1) NSS; (2) Java JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 8 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.x up to 1.4.2_12, and SDK and JRE 1.3.x up to 1.3.1_19; (3) JSSE 1.0.3_03 and earlier; (4) IPSec/IKE; (5) Secure Global Desktop; and (6) StarOffice, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, removes PKCS-1 padding before generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that is signed by that RSA key and prevents these products from correctly verifying X.509 and other certificates that use PKCS #1.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Nss
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-10-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-5201

  • Confirm whether Sun Nss is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5201.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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