CVE-2006-5819

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to use the server as a proxy for web attacks and host scanning via a direct request to the highlight/index.html script.

Affected products

Verity Ultraseek: through 5.6.2; 5.2.1, 5.5.0, 5.6.0, 5.6.1

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017235
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/559616
http://www.osvdb.org/22892
http://www.osvdb.org/30286
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21120
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30311
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017235
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/559616
http://www.osvdb.org/22892

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