CVE-2006-5215

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

Affected products

Netbsd: through current; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.3.1 (+22)
Sun Solaris: 8.0, 8.0-beta, 9.0, 9.0-x86_update_2, 10.0
Sunos: 5.8, 5.9
X.Org Xdm: through 1.0.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32805
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5898
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29427
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2205
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm

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