HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-3531

Pivot vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
9.4%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
includes/editor/insert_image.php in Pivot 1.30 RC2 and earlier creates the authentication credentials from parameters, which allows remote attackers to obtain privileges and upload arbitrary files via modified (1) pass and (2) session parameters, and (3) pass and (4) userlevel indices of the (a) Pivot_Vars[] or (b) Users[] array parameters.
Affected vendor
Pivot
Affected product
Pivot
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-07-12

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-3531

  • Confirm whether Pivot Pivot is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-3531.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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