CVE-2006-6242

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6242
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-03 19:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMultiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Serendipity 1.0.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to read or include arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the serendipity[charset] parameter in (1) include/lang.inc.php; or to plugins/ scripts (2) serendipity_event_bbcode/serendipity_event_bbcode.php, (3) serendipity_event_browsercompatibility/serendipity_event_browsercompatibility.php, (4) serendipity_event_contentrewrite/serendipity_event_contentrewrite.php, (5) serendipity_event_creativecommons/serendipity_event_creativecommons.php, (6) serendipity_event_emoticate/serendipity_event_emoticate.php, (7) serendipity_event_entryproperties/serendipity_event_entryproperties.php, (8) serendipity_event_karma/serendipity_event_karma.php, (9) serendipity_event_livesearch/serendipity_event_livesearch.php, (10) serendipity_event_mailer/serendipity_event_mailer.php, (11) serendipity_event_nl2br/serendipity_event_nl2br.php, (12) serendipity_event_s9ymarkup/serendipity_event_s9ymarkup.php, (13) serendipity_event_searchhighlight/serendipity_event_searchhighlight.php, (14) serendipity_event_spamblock/serendipity_event_spamblock.php, (15) serendipity_event_spartacus/serendipity_event_spartacus.php, (16) serendipity_event_statistics/serendipity_plugin_statistics.php, (17) serendipity_event_templatechooser/serendipity_event_templatechooser.php, (18) serendipity_event_textile/serendipity_event_textile.php, (19) serendipity_event_textwiki/serendipity_event_textwiki.php, (20) serendipity_event_trackexits/serendipity_event_trackexits.php, (21) serendipity_event_weblogping/serendipity_event_weblogping.php, (22) serendipity_event_xhtmlcleanup/serendipity_event_xhtmlcleanup.php, (23) serendipity_plugin_comments/serendipity_plugin_comments.php, (24) serendipity_plugin_creativecommons/serendipity_plugin_creativecommons.php, (25) serendipity_plugin_entrylinks/serendipity_plugin_entrylinks.php, (26) serendipity_plugin_eventwrapper/serendipity_plugin_eventwrapper.php, (27) serendipity_plugin_history/serendipity_plugin_history.php, (28) serendipity_plugin_recententries/serendipity_plugin_recententries.php, (29) serendipity_plugin_remoterss/serendipity_plugin_remoterss.php, (30) serendipity_plugin_shoutbox/serendipity_plugin_shoutbox.php, and and (31) serendipity_plugin_templatedropdown/serendipity_plugin_templatedropdown.php.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-22 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application S9y Serendipity 0.3 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.4 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.5 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.5_pl1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.6 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.6_pl1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.6_pl2 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.6_pl3 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.6_rc1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.6_rc2 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7.1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7_beta1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7_beta2 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7_beta3 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7_beta4 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.7_rc1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.8 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.8.1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.8.2 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.8_beta5 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.8_beta6 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 0.9.1 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 1.0.3 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 1.0_beta2 All All All
Application S9y Serendipity 1.0_beta3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Serendipity <= 1.0.3 (comment.php) Local File Include Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Serendipity Lang.Inc.PHP Local File Include Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
Serendipity [s9y] Forums :: View topic - Serendipity <= 1.0.3 Local File Include Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.s9y.org Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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