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CVE-2006-6537
IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, and possibly 10, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a modified pnl…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, and possibly 10, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a modified pnl parameter, related to hod/HODAdmin.html and hod/frameset.html.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% 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: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- websphere-pnl-authentication-bypass(30826) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 22652 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061211 Unauthenticated access to IBM Host On-Demand administration pages (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2030 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4943 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2006-6520 (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-2006-6537)Record last updated .