CVE-2006-6954

Exp

Flock beta 1 0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a web page that contains a large number of nested marquee tags, a related issue to CVE-2006-2723.

Published: 2007-01-29 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6954 is rated Exploit Available (58.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.93%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2006-6954

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6954

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 2026-02-22 0.76% 0.93% +0.17%
2 2025-11-09 0.62% 0.76% +0.14%
3 2025-09-17 — 0.62% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6954

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6954

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6954

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-6954 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (firefox), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): ignored 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-6954

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6954

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
flock flock 1.0.7 cpe:2.3:a:flock:flock:1.0.7:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6954

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