CVE-2006-4842

lowpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.076 · 95 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

7 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

7.62% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API 4.6.1 and 4.6.2, as used in Sun Solaris 10, trusts user-specified environment variables for specifying log files even when running from setuid programs, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

3.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v2.03.4lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Fsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimary

exploits (7)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/solaris/local/libnspr_nspr_log_file_priv_escSolaris libnspr NSPR_LOG_FILE Privilege Escalationweaponized · metasploit
EDB-2543Solaris 10 libnspr - 'LD_PRELOAD' Arbitrary File Creation Privilege Escalation (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-2569Solaris 10 libnspr - 'LD_PRELOAD' Arbitrary File Creation Privilege Escalation (2)functional · exploit_db
EDB-2641Solaris 10 libnspr - 'Constructor' Arbitrary File Creation Privilege Escalation (3)functional · exploit_db
EDB-28788Sun Solaris Netscape Portable Runtime API 4.6.1 - Local Privilege Escalation (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-28789Sun Solaris Netscape Portable Runtime API 4.6.1 - Local Privilege Escalation (2)functional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
netscape portable runtime api= 4.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:netscape:portable_runtime_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netscape portable runtime api= 4.6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:netscape:portable_runtime_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun solaris= 10.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-10-12modified 2026-06-16

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references (20)

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