Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5297

Title: Mutt

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5297.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 16, 2006

Modified Date Apr 23, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5297: Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=115999486426292&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/22613 http://secunia.com/advisories/22640 http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 http://secunia.com/advisories/22686 http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:190 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20733 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-373-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4176 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10601 http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=115999486426292&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/22613 http://secunia.com/advisories/22640 http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 http://secunia.com/advisories/22686 http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:190 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20733 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-373-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4176 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10601

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5297 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 16, 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:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.