Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request to /spipe/pkg/ with a long source header.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5156 is rated High Exploit Risk (88.3/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 82.27%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 4 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16783 | exploit_db | edb | 2010-09-20 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 2467 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-10-01 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-05-14 | 83.74% | 82.27% | -1.47% |
| 2 | 2026-04-24 | 82.96% | 83.74% | +0.78% |
| 3 | 2025-09-05 | — | 82.96% | — |
Full EPSS history (18 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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10.0 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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— | CVE-2006-5156: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5156 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| mcafee | epolicy_orchestrator | 3.0 | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| mcafee | epolicy_orchestrator | 3.0 | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:3.0:sp2a:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| mcafee | epolicy_orchestrator | 3.5.0 | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator:3.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| mcafee | protectionpilot | 1.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:protectionpilot:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |