CVE-2006-5971

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in admin/logfile.txt in Verity Ultraseek before 5.6.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the name variable.

Affected products

Verity Ultraseek: through 5.6.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22892
http://www.osvdb.org/30289
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/release_notes/ultraseek.5.6.2.txt
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30321
http://secunia.com/advisories/22892
http://www.osvdb.org/30289
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/release_notes/ultraseek.5.6.2.txt

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