CVE-2006-5812

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Unspecified vulnerability in Kerio MailServer allows attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by vd_kms4.pm, a "Kerio MailServer DoS." NOTE: As of 20061108, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, since it is from a reliable researcher, it is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.

Published: 2006-11-08 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5812 is rated Exploit Available (57.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.47%). Core evidence: 1 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-2006-5812

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5812

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 2025-06-27 0.39% 0.47% +0.08%
2 2025-03-30 0.46% 0.39% -0.07%
3 2025-03-29 0.46%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5812

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-2006-5812

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5812

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-5812: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5812

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5812

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kerio kerio_mailserver cpe:2.3:a:kerio:kerio_mailserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5812

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