CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4467
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1RCx before 1.1RC3, and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, does not properly unset variables when the input data includes a numeric parameter with a value matching an alphanumeric parameter's hash value, which allows remote attackers to perform directory traversal attacks to read arbitrary local files, lock topics, and possibly have other security impacts. NOTE: it could be argued that this vulnerability is due to a bug in the unset PHP command (CVE-2006-3017) and the proper fix should be in PHP; if so, then this should not be treated as a vulnerability in Simple Machines Forum.
Affected configurations
• simple machines simple machines forum (<= 1.0.7)
• simple machines simple machines forum (<= 1.1 rc2)
References
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/smf_11rc2_local_incl.html retrogod.altervista.org
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/smf_11rc2_lock.html retrogod.altervista.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1475 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444053/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=107112.0 www.simplemachines.org
- http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=107135.0 www.simplemachines.org
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/smf_11rc2_local_incl.html retrogod.altervista.org
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/smf_11rc2_lock.html retrogod.altervista.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1475 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444053/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=107112.0 www.simplemachines.org
- http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=107135.0 www.simplemachines.org