CVE-2006-5710

Exp

The Airport driver for certain Orinoco based Airport cards in Darwin kernel 8.8.0 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 probe response frame without any valid information element (IE) fields after the header, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Published: 2006-11-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5710 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.9/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 18.07%, 97th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2006-5710

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2700 exploit_db edb 2006-11-01 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5710

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 33.59% 18.07% -15.52%
2 2025-10-07 33.04% 33.59% +0.55%
3 2025-06-23 — 33.04% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5710

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5710

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5710

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5710: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5710

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2006-5710

Solution: Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5710

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apple mac_os_x 10.4.8 cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opendarwin darwin_kernel 8.8.0 cpe:2.3:o:opendarwin:darwin_kernel:8.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5710

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