CVE-2006-5291
PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admin/includes/spaw/spaw_control.class.php in Download-Engine 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admin/includes/spaw/spaw_control.class.php in Download-Engine 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the spaw_root parameter. NOTE: CVE analysis suggests that this issue is actually in a third party product, SPAW Editor PHP Edition, so this issue is probably a duplicate of CVE-2006-4656.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Download-Engine 1.4.2 - 'spaw' Remote File Inclusion (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2521webapps, phppublished 12 Oct 2006Verified
- SL_Site 1.0 - 'spaw_root' Remote File Inclusion (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2317webapps, phppublished 7 Sept 2006Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 2521 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (11 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
References10
- 1723 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 2521 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- downloadengine-spaw-file-include(29493) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://spaw.cvs.sourceforge.net/spaw/spaw/spaw_control.class.php?r1=1.19&r2=1.20 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20500 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4025 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://spaw.cvs.sourceforge.net/spaw/spaw/spaw_control.class.php?r1=1.25&r2=1.26 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 22383 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://spaw.cvs.sourceforge.net/spaw/spaw/docs/ChangeLog.txt?view=markup (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20061012 Download-Engine Remote File Include (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2006-5276 (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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