CVE-2006-1772 — 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

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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

Published Apr 13, 2006

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.39%

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.

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.39% 0.00388

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00388

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.39% (0.00388)	30.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.38% (0.00379)	29.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00052)	13.33th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361775
x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/19589
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17477
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361775		x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/19589		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17477		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 13, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Apr 12, 2006

Link CVE-2006-1772

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-1772

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-1772