CVE-2006-6305

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6305
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-06 22:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in Net-SNMP 5.3 before 5.3.0.1, when configured using the rocommunity or rouser snmpd.conf tokens, causes Net-SNMP to grant write access to users or communities that only have read-only access.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Net-SNMP af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 net-snmp.sourceforge.net Patch
Net-SNMP af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 net-snmp.sourceforge.net Patch
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Net-SNMP Grants Write Access to Read-Only Objects on Systems Configured With 'rocommunity' and 'rouser' Tokens af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Page not found - SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Patch
Net-SNMP SNMPD.Conf Tokens Security Restriction Bypass Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Net-SNMP Security Bypass and Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Joshua BressersNot vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of net-smtp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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