CVE-2006-3750

Hashcash vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

5.7%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in server.php in the Hashcash Component (com_hashcash) 1.2.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the mosConfig_absolute_path parameter.

Affected vendor

Hashcash

Affected product

Hashcash

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Published

2006-07-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 5.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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