CVE-2006-5072: Mono

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The System.CodeDom.Compiler classes in Novell Mono create temporary files with insecure permissions, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Mono Mono: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only

Published 2006-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.