Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2769

Title: Sourcefire Snort

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-2769

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jun 02, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

10.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-2769: The HTTP Inspect preprocessor (http_inspect) in Snort 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote attackers to bypass "uricontent" rules via a carriage return (\r) after the URL and before the HTTP declaration.

Impacted Vendors

martin_roesch 1

sourcefire 1

cisco 1

Reference Links

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html http://marc.info/?l=snort-devel&m=114909074311462&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/20413 http://secunia.com/advisories/20766 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1018 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016191 http://www.demarc.com/support/downloads/patch_20060531 http://www.osvdb.org/25837 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435600/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435734/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435797/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435872/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18200 http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi#431 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2119 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26855 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html http://marc.info/?l=snort-devel&m=114909074311462&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/20413 http://secunia.com/advisories/20766 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1018 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016191 http://www.demarc.com/support/downloads/patch_20060531 http://www.osvdb.org/25837 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435600/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435734/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435797/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435872/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18200 http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi#431 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2119 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26855

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-2769 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27931

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 02, 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:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.