CVE-2006-3693

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2006-3693 · Published 21/07/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-3693 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting rocks clusters (rocks clusters).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.93%, higher than 60.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
rocks clusters rocks_clusters	`≤ 4.1`	No fix yet

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.

References

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

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