Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5821

Title: Citrix Metaframe RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5821.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 10, 2006
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5821: Heap-based buffer overflow in the IMA_SECURE_DecryptData1 function in ImaSystem.dll for Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 and 2.0, and Presentation Server 3.0 and 4.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests to the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) service (ImaSrv.exe) with invalid size values that trigger the overflow during decryption.

Impacted Vendors

C
citrix 2

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/22802 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017205 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX111186 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451337/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20986 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4429 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-038.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30148 http://secunia.com/advisories/22802 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017205 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX111186 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451337/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20986 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4429 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-038.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30148
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5821 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.