CVE-2006-3693

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Rocks Clusters 4.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via commands enclosed with escaped backticks (\`) in an argument to the (1) mount-loop (mount-loop.c) or (2) umount-loop (umount-loop.c) command, which is not filtered in a system function call.

Affected products

Rocks Clusters: through 4.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21065
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1242
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440126/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19003
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2833
http://xavier.tigerteam.se/advisories/TSEAD-200606-6.txt
http://xavier.tigerteam.se/exploits/rocksmountdirty.sh
http://xavier.tigerteam.se/exploits/rocksumountdirty.py
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27758
http://secunia.com/advisories/21065
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1242
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440126/100/0/threaded

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