CVE-2006-4246

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter, which results in changing root's shell instead of the shell of a specified user.

Affected products

Usermin: through 1.210; 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 (+25)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21968
http://secunia.com/advisories/21981
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1177
http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18574
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3668
http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29010
http://secunia.com/advisories/21968
http://secunia.com/advisories/21981
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894

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