CVE-2006-4684

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The docutils module in Zope (Zope2) 2.7.0 through 2.7.9 and 2.8.0 through 2.8.8 does not properly handle web pages with reStructuredText (reST) markup, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a csv_table directive, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3458.

Affected products

zopefoundation Zope: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 (+13)

References

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2006-August/002005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21947
http://secunia.com/advisories/21953
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1176
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20022
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3653
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2006-08-21/Hotfix-20060821/README.txt
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2006-August/002005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21947
http://secunia.com/advisories/21953
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1176
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20022

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