CVE-2006-1772

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

debconf in Debian GNU/Linux, when configuring mnogosearch in the mnogosearch-common 3.2.31-1 package, uses the world-readable config.dat file instead of the restricted passwords.dat for storing the cleartext database administrator password in the mnogosearch-common/database_admin_pass record, which allows local users to view the password.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361775
http://secunia.com/advisories/19589
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17477
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361775
http://secunia.com/advisories/19589
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17477

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