CVE-2006-6598

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in viewnfo.php in (1) TorrentFlux before 2.2 and (2) torrentflux-b4rt before 2.1-b4rt-972 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in the path parameter, a different vector than CVE-2006-6328.

Affected products

Torrentflux: through 2.2
Torrentflux-B4Rt: through 2.1_b4rt971; 2.1_b4rt3, 2.1_b4rt4, 2.1_b4rt5, 2.1_b4rt6, 2.1_b4rt7, 2.1_b4rt8 (+19)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23402
http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/changelog-torrentflux_2.1-b4rt.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21613
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2902
http://secunia.com/advisories/23402
http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/changelog-torrentflux_2.1-b4rt.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21613
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2902

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