CVE-2006-2254

Exp

Buffer overflow in filecpnt.exe in FileCOPA 1.01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a username with a large number of newline characters.

Published: 2006-05-09 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-2254 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.15%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-2254

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
1754 exploit_db edb 2006-05-05 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-2254

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 2025-03-30 4.99% 5.15% +0.16%
2 2025-03-29 5.15% 4.99% -0.16%
3 2025-03-17 5.15%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-2254

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-2254

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-2254

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
intervations filecopa 1.01 cpe:2.3:a:intervations:filecopa:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-2254

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