CVE-2006-6888 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-6888

P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web...

Vulnerability Description

P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the administrative account name and password hash via a direct request for db/user.dat.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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High 7.5

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

p-news
Vulnerable Versions:
1.16, 1.17

Timeline

Official Publish: January 5th, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.