Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5298

Title: Mutt

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5298.

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)
0.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5298: The mutt_adv_mktemp function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier does not properly verify that temporary files have been created with restricted permissions, which might allow local users to create files with weak permissions via a race condition between the mktemp and safe_fopen function calls.

Impacted Vendors

M
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://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:190 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-373-1 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://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:190 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-373-1
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-2006-5298 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.