CVE-2006-5969: Fvwm

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function in fvwm 2.5.18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via carriage returns in a directory name, which is not properly handled by fvwm-menu-directory, a variant of CVE-2003-1308.

Affected products

• Fvwm Fvwm: up to and including 2.5.18

Published 2006-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.