CVE-2006-2831

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Drupal 4.6.x before 4.6.8 and 4.7.x before 4.7.2, when running under certain Apache configurations such as when FileInfo overrides are disabled within .htaccess, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with multiple extensions, a variant of CVE-2006-2743.

Affected products

Drupal: 4.6, 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4 (+5)

References

http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-007/advisory.txt
http://drupal.org/node/66763
http://secunia.com/advisories/21244
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1042
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1125
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435792/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18245
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-007/advisory.txt
http://drupal.org/node/66763
http://secunia.com/advisories/21244
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1042
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1125

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