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CVE-2006-6579

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows XP has weak permissions (FILE_WRITE_DATA and FILE_READ_DATA for Everyone) for %WINDIR%\pchealth\ERRORREP\QHEADLES, which allows local users to write and read files in this folder, as demonstrated by an ASP shell that has write access by IWAM_machine and read access by IUSR_Machine.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: through 5.0; 3.0, 4.0, 4.0-alpha
• Microsoft IIS: 1.0, 2.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454268/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454268/100/0/threaded

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