CVE-2006-6797

Windows Xp vulnerability

CVSS

6.6

EPSS

6.8%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

The Client Server Run-Time Subsystem (CSRSS) in Microsoft Windows allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read arbitrary memory from csrss.exe via crafted arguments to the NtRaiseHardError function with status 0x50000018, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6696.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows Xp

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-12-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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