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CVE-2006-3798

DeluxeBB 1.07 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite the (1) _GET, (2) _POST, (3) _ENV, and (4) _SERVER variables via the…

Description

DeluxeBB 1.07 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite the (1) _GET, (2) _POST, (3) _ENV, and (4) _SERVER variables via the _COOKIE (aka COOKIE) variable, which can overwrite the other variables during an extract function call, probably leading to multiple security vulnerabilities, aka "pollution of the global namespace."

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By mitre

  2. Published

  3. · 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2006-3798, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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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

4

Sources

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