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CVE-2006-5969

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2006-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function in fvwm 2.5.18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via carriage returns in a directory name, which is not properly handled by fvwm-menu-directory, a variant of CVE-2003-1308.

Affected products

• Fvwm: through 2.5.18

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/22961
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23089
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419
• http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22961
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23089
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419
• http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452

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