CVE-2006-0045

crawl before 4.0.0 does not securely call programs when saving and loading games, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Published: 2006-01-20 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-0045 is rated Low Risk (37.9/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-0045

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.05% 0.34% +0.28%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.05% +0.01%
3 2024-12-17 0.04%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-0045

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-0045

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-0045

vendor priority summary link
debian medium CVE-2006-0045 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (crawl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-0045
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-0045 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (crawl), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-0045

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-0045

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
linley_henzell dungeon_crawl 4.0.0_b23 cpe:2.3:a:linley_henzell:dungeon_crawl:4.0.0_b23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-0045

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