CVE-2006-5330

Flash Player vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

23.1%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

CRLF injection vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player plugin 9.0.16 and earlier for Windows, 7.0.63 and earlier for Linux, 7.x before 7.0 r67 for Solaris, and before 9.0.28.0 for Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of client requests and conduct HTTP Request Splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in arguments to the ActionScript functions (1) XML.addRequestHeader and (2) XML.contentType. NOTE: the flexibility of the attack varies depending on the type of web browser being used.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Flash Player

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2006-10-17

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 23.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-5330

Confirm whether Adobe Flash Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5330.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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