Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0071

Title: Gentoo App-Crypt Pinentry

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-0071.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 04, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-0071: The ebuild for pinentry before 0.7.2-r2 on Gentoo Linux sets setgid bits for pinentry programs, which allows local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files as gid 0.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/18284 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml http://www.osvdb.org/22211 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16120 http://secunia.com/advisories/18284 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml http://www.osvdb.org/22211 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16120

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-0071 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 04, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.