CVE-2006-6662 — Unspecified vulnerability in Linux User Management (novell-lum) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Open Enterprise Server 9, under unspecified conditions, allows local users to log in to the console without a password

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MEDIUM

Unspecified vulnerability in Linux User Management (novell-lum) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Open Enterprise Server 9, under unspecified conditions, allows local users to log in to the console without a password

Published Dec 20, 2006

4.1

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.30%

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Linux User Management (novell-lum) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Open Enterprise Server 9, under unspecified conditions, allows local users to log in to the console without a password.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.30% 0.00302

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00302

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 2, 2026	0.30% (0.00302)	20.78th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.28% (0.00284)	19.92th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00056)	14.63th	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% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://secunia.com/advisories/23409
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/23409		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 20, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 20, 2006

Link CVE-2006-6662

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-6662

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-6662