CVE-2006-5790: Stefan Ritt Elog Web Logbook

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in elogd.c in ELOG 2.6.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) an entry with an attachment whose name contains format string specifiers (el_submit function), and possibly other vectors in the (2) receive_config, (3) show_rss_feed, (4) show_elog_list, (5) show_logbook_node, and (6) server_loop functions.

Affected products

• Stefan Ritt Elog Web Logbook: up to and including 2.6.2

Published 2006-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.