CVE-2006-2450

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

auth.c in LibVNCServer 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a request in which the client specifies an insecure security type such as "Type 1 - None", which is accepted even if it is not offered by the server, a different issue than CVE-2006-2369.

Affected products

Libvncserver: 0.7.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376824
http://libvncserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/libvncserver/libvncserver/libvncserver/auth.c?r1=1.11&r2=1.14&diff_format=u
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/May/29
http://secunia.com/advisories/20940
http://secunia.com/advisories/21179
http://secunia.com/advisories/21349
http://secunia.com/advisories/21393
http://secunia.com/advisories/21405
http://secunia.com/advisories/24525
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-05.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-12.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-19.xml

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