CVE-2007-6495

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

inc_newuser.asp in Hosting Controller 6.1 Hot fix 3.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to change the permissions of directories named (1) db, (2) www, (3) Special, and (4) log at arbitrary locations under the web root via a modified Dirroot parameter in an AddUser action to accounts/AccountActions.asp. NOTE: this can be leveraged for remote code execution by changing the permissions of \Forum\db, which is configured for execution of ASP scripts with administrative privileges, and then uploading a script to \Forum\db.

Affected products

Hosting Controller: 6.1_hotfix_3.3

References

http://hostingcontroller.com/english/logs/Post-Hotfix-3_3-sec-Patch-ReleaseNotes.html
http://osvdb.org/44184
http://secunia.com/advisories/28973
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3474
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019222
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485028/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26862
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4730
http://hostingcontroller.com/english/logs/Post-Hotfix-3_3-sec-Patch-ReleaseNotes.html
http://osvdb.org/44184
http://secunia.com/advisories/28973
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3474

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