CVE-2006-4191

Extreme Message Board vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

9.7%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in memcp.php in XMB (Extreme Message Board) 1.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the langfilenew parameter, as demonstrated by injecting PHP sequences into an Apache HTTP Server log file, which is then included by header.php.

Affected vendor

Xmb Software

Affected product

Extreme Message Board

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-08-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high 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 9.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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