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CVE-2006-4246
Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling…
- 3.6LowCVSS base score
- 0.88%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter, which results in changing root's shell instead of the shell of a specified user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
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 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.88% · top 40% 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: Low 3.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 21968 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21981 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18574 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- usermin-shell-dos(29010) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3668 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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-2006-4236 (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-2006-4246)Record last updated .