THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-1990
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-1990

Php vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
8.3%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the wordwrap function in string.c in PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain long arguments that cause a small buffer to be allocated, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in a memcpy function call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1396.
Affected vendor
Php
Affected product
Php
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2006-04-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Php Php is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-1990.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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