CVE-2006-3426

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in (a) PatchLink Update Server (PLUS) before 6.1 P1 and 6.2.x before 6.2 SR1 P1 and (b) Novell ZENworks 6.2 SR1 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and directories via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the (1) action, (2) agentid, or (3) index parameters to dagent/nwupload.asp, which are used as pathname components.

Affected products

Lumension Patchlink Update Server: 6.1, 6.2.0.181, 6.2.0.189
Novell Zenworks: through 6.2

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/047495.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20876
http://secunia.com/advisories/20878
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1200
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016405
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438710/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18732
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2595
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2596
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/047495.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20876
http://secunia.com/advisories/20878

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