CVE-2006-1620
admin/accounts/AccountActions.asp in Hosting Controller 2002 RC 1 allows remote attackers to modify passwords of other users, probably via…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
admin/accounts/AccountActions.asp in Hosting Controller 2002 RC 1 allows remote attackers to modify passwords of other users, probably via an "Update User" ActionType with a modified UserName parameter and the PassCheck parameter set to TRUE. It was later reported that the vulnerability is present in 6.1 Hotfix 3.3 and earlier.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 4730 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Timeline
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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:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% 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
References9
- 28973 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20071213 Hosting Controller - Multiple Security Bugs (Extremely Critical) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20060402 Hosting Controller AccountActions.asp and saveuploadfiles.asp vulns (PoC) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://hostingcontroller.com/english/logs/Post-Hotfix-3_3-sec-Patch-ReleaseNotes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 4730 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 26862 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 24773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- hosting-controller-accountactions-password(25673) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- hostingcontroller-multiple-security-bypass(39038) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2006-1621 (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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