Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-1091

Title: Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-1091.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 09, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-1091: Kaspersky Antivirus 5.0.5 and 5.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via unknown attack vectors.

Impacted Vendors

kaspersky 1

kaspersky_lab 1

Reference Links

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/535 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426699 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16942 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25221 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/535 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426699 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16942 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25221

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-1091 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.

March 09, 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.