Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-1057

Title: Gnome Gdm Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-1057.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Apr 25, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.7 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-1057: Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack when gdm performs chown and chgrp operations on the .ICEauthority file.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092 https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092 https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.7

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-1057 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.

April 25, 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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.