CVE-2006-5465 Details
Buffer overflow in PHP before 5.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 inputs to the (1) htmlentities or (2) htmlspecialchars functions.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5465
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
7.51 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (94rd percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2006-5465
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
7.5 High
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CVE-2006-5465 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 50,764 26.31%
FR 43,677 22.63%
KR 16,422 8.51%
TW 14,952 7.75%
DE 13,947 7.23%
JP 13,071 6.77%
IT 5,243 2.72%
CA 4,991 2.59%
RU 4,330 2.24%
NL 2,788 1.44%

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CVE-2006-5465 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Telecommunications 92,952 68.75%
Technology 38,655 28.59%
Real Estate 956 0.71%
Education 516 0.38%
Utilities 503 0.37%
Media/Entertainment 448 0.33%
Government/Politics 266 0.20%
Business Services 265 0.20%
Retail 202 0.15%
Consumer Goods 83 0.06%

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