CVE-2006-5861

The Independent Management Architecture (IMA) service (ImaSrv.exe) in Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 and 2.0, and Presentation Server 3.0 and 4.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service exit) via a crafted packet that causes the service to access an unmapped memory address and triggers an unhandled exception.

Published: 2006-11-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5861 is rated Moderate Risk (48.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.38%, 90th percentile). EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5861

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 7.11% 4.38% -2.72%
2 2025-12-04 6.86% 7.11% +0.24%
3 2025-06-29 — 6.86% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5861

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-2006-5861

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5861

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5861: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5861

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5861

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
citrix metaframe 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:citrix:metaframe:1.0:*:xp:*:*:*:*:*
citrix metaframe 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:citrix:metaframe:2.0:*:xp:*:*:*:*:*
citrix metaframe_presentation_server 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:citrix:metaframe_presentation_server:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
citrix metaframe_presentation_server 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:citrix:metaframe_presentation_server:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5861

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