CVE-2006-6458

The Trend Micro scan engine before 8.320 for Windows and before 8.150 on HP-UX and AIX, as used in Trend Micro PC Cillin - Internet Security 2006, Office Scan 7.3, and Server Protect 5.58, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero, which triggers an infinite loop.

Published: 2006-12-11 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-6458 is rated Moderate Risk (61.8/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.52%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.62% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6458

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 0.91% 2.52% +1.62%
2 2025-07-30 0.74% 0.91% +0.16%
3 2025-03-30 0.74%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6458

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C 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:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6458

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6458

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-6458: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6458

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6458

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
trend_micro officescan 7.3 cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:officescan:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trend_micro pc_cillin_-_internet_security_2006 cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:pc_cillin_-_internet_security_2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trend_micro serverprotect 5.58 cpe:2.3:a:trend_micro:serverprotect:5.58:*:emc:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6458

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