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CVE-2006-5909
generaloptions.php in Paul Tarjan Stanford Conference And Research Forum (SCARF) before 20070227 does not require the admin privilege,…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
generaloptions.php in Paul Tarjan Stanford Conference And Research Forum (SCARF) before 20070227 does not require the admin privilege, which allows remote attackers to reconfigure the application or its user accounts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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)
- 1.5% · top 25% 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
8
- scarf-generaloptions-privilege-escalation(30037) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0760 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20070215 Re: Stanford university SCARF user editing (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=177652&release_id=489633 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24311 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061104 Stanford university SCARF user editing (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- scarf-generaloptions-security-bypass(32700) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20934 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2006-5892 (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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