CVE-2006-1292
Directory traversal vulnerability in Jim Hu and Chad Little PHP iCalendar 2.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Jim Hu and Chad Little PHP iCalendar 2.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences and a NUL (%00) character in the phpicalendar[cookie_language] and phpicalendar[cookie_style] cookies, as demonstrated by injecting PHP sequences into an Apache access_log file, which is then included by day.php.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- PHP iCalendar 2.21 - 'cookie' Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1585webapps, phppublished 15 Mar 2006Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 1585 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References4
- 17125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 19285 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1019 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1585 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2006-1296 (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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