{"id":"CVE-2006-2185","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-2185","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:05.710Z","title":"PORTAL.NLM in Novell Netware 6.5 SP5 writes the username and password in cleartext to the abend.log log file when the groupOperationsMethod function fails, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges.","description":"PORTAL.NLM in Novell Netware 6.5 SP5 writes the username and password in cleartext to the abend.log log file when the groupOperationsMethod function fails, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges.","published":"2006-05-22T17:02:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:24:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["novell/netware"],"epss":{"score":0.01616,"percentile":0.75843,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.62%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20288","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1016106","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?2973698.htm","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/25780","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18017","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1829","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26488","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20288","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1016106","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?2973698.htm","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/25780","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18017","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1829","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26488","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2185","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}