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CVE-2006-0869

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "remember me" feature in liveuser.php in PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) LiveUser 0.16.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine file existence, and possibly delete arbitrary files with short pathnames or possibly read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in the store_id value of a cookie.

Affected products

• Pear Liveuser: 0.3, 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.7 (+23)

References

• http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser/download/
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/466
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015659
• http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00103-02212006
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425711/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16761
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0697
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24852
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24853
• http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser/download/
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/466
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015659

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