CVE-2006-5714

Exp

Easy File Sharing (EFS) Web Server 4.0, when running on an NTFS file system, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files under the web root by appending "::$DATA" to the end of a HTTP GET request, which accesses the alternate data stream.

Published: 2006-11-04 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5714 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.20%, 93th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-5714

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2690 exploit_db edb 2006-10-30 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5714

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 5.32% 6.20% +0.88%
2 2025-06-23 4.42% 5.32% +0.90%
3 2025-03-30 — 4.42% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5714

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:P/I:N/A:N 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:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5714

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5714

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5714: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5714

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5714

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
efs_software efs_web_server 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:efs_software:efs_web_server:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5714

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