CVE-2006-7175

The version of Sendmail 8.13.1-2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier does not allow the administrator to disable SSLv2 encryption, which could cause less secure channels to be used than desired.

Published: 2007-03-27 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-7175 is rated Moderate Risk (49/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.82%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-7175

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 0.16% 0.82% +0.66%
2 2024-08-19 0.15% 0.16% +0.01%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.15% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-7175

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-7175

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-7175

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2006-7175 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sendmail), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-7175
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7175
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-7175 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sendmail), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-7175

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2006-7175

  • Red Hat (2007-04-27T00:00:00)

    ** DISPUTED ** Sendmail classes the CipherList directive as "for future release"; currently unsupported and undocumented. Therefore the lack of support for the CipherList directive in various Red Hat products is not a vulnerability.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-7175

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sendmail sendmail 8.13.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:sendmail:sendmail:8.13.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-7175

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