CVE-2006-5205

Invision Gallery vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

10.7%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in Invision Gallery 2.0.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the dir parameter in (1) index.php and (2) forum/index.php, when the viewimage command in the gallery module is used.

Affected vendor

Invision Power Services

Affected product

Invision Gallery

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-10-10

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.

Its EPSS score of 10.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5205.
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