CVE-2006-6264: Teredo creates trusted peer entries for arbitrary incoming source Teredo addresses, even if the low 32 bits represent an intranet address, which might allow rem

Teredo creates trusted peer entries for arbitrary incoming source Teredo addresses, even if the low 32 bits represent an intranet address, which might allow rem

Teredo creates trusted peer entries for arbitrary incoming source Teredo addresses, even if the low 32 bits represent an intranet address, which might allow remote attackers to send IPv4 traffic to intranet hosts that use non-RFC1918 addresses, bypassing IPv4 ingress filtering.

Description from the National Vulnerability Database, published by MITRE

What it means for a small business

Teredo is on the computers, phones or browsers your team uses every day. Turn on automatic updates and restart: most of these fixes only take effect after a restart.

How likely is an attack? The Exploit Prediction Scoring System, run by FIRST (the global association of security response teams), puts the odds of this one being exploited in the next 30 days at 14%, top 3% of all CVEs. That’s high: fix it ahead of everything else on the list. Scored October 29, 2026, updated daily.

Check your own setup

Website check: reads what your site runs from the outside (WordPress version, plugins it can see, old server software) and matches it against this database.
Server check: what your web server says about itself, and whether that version has known flaws.

Sources

Part of the Huttenlocher Technologies vulnerability database, refreshed twice a day from CISA and the NVD. The title, category and plain-language guidance are ours; check the linked record before acting on a detail. This is general guidance, not a review of your systems.

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