CVE-2006-5970

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5970
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-18 00:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionVerity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests with (1) a null ("%00") terminated url parameter to help/urlstatusgo.html; or missing parameters to (2) help/header.html, (3) help/footer.html, (4) spell.html, (5) coreforma.html, (6) daterange.html, (7) hits.html, (8) hitsnavbottom.html, (9) indexform.html, (10) indexforma.html, (11) languages.html, (12) nohits.html, (13) onehit1.html, (14) onehit2.html, (15) query.html, (16) queryform0.html, (17) queryform0a.html, (18) queryform1.html, (19) queryform1a.html, (20) queryform2.html, (21) queryform2a.html, (22) quicklinks.html, (23) relatedtopics.html, (24) signin.html, (25) subtopics.html, (26) thesaurus.html, (27) topics.html, (28) hitspagebar.html, (29) highlight/highlight.html, (30) highlight/highlight_one.html, and (31) highlight/topnav.html, which leaks the installation path in the resulting error message.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Verity Ultraseek All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Verity Ultraseek Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ZDI-06-042 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.zerodayinitiative.com
www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ultraseek.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.osvdb.org/30287 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Ultraseek '/highlight/index.html' Script Lets Remote Users Connect to Other Systems - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
www.osvdb.org/30288 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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