CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6888
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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.
Affected configurations
• p-news p-news 1.16
• p-news p-news 1.17
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31197 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3054 www.exploit-db.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31197 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3054 www.exploit-db.com