CVE-2006-0887
Eval injection vulnerability in sessions.inc in PHP Base Library (PHPLib) before 7.4a, when index.php3 from the PHPLib distribution is…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Eval injection vulnerability in sessions.inc in PHP Base Library (PHPLib) before 7.4a, when index.php3 from the PHPLib distribution is available on the server, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by including a base64-encoded representation of the code in a cookie. NOTE: this description was significantly updated on 20060605 to reflect new details after an initial vague advisory.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- PHPLib < 7.4 - SQL Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 43838webapps, phppublished 5 Mar 2016Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- phplib-code-execution(24873) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0720 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=31885&release_id=396091 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00107-03052006 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 23466 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 16902 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1016123 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 16801 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0891 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0887)Record last updated .