The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-6719 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.48%). Core evidence: 2 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2947 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-12-18 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-05-05 | 4.83% | 4.48% | -0.36% |
| 2 | 2025-09-19 | 3.72% | 4.83% | +1.11% |
| 3 | 2025-08-11 | — | 3.72% | — |
Full EPSS history (10 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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— | CVE-2006-6719: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6719 |
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2006-6719 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (wget), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6719 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-6719 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2006-6719 severity moderate: SUSE including 9 source package names (wget-1.11.4-1.15.1, wget-1.11.4-1.19.1, …), 11 product×package rows across 9 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, … (9 product lines)): Fixed 11. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-6719/ |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2006-6719 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wget), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 3, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-6719 |
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221459 We do not consider a crash of a client application such as wget to be a security issue. This flaw was fixed in wget shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 before the initial release of the product. Version of wget shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 are affected by this bug.
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | wget | 1.5.3 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.6 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.7 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.7.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.8 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.8.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.8.2 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.9 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.9.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.10 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.10.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.10.2 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |