CVE-2006-1212

HIGH 7.5CVE-2006-1212 · Published 14/03/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-1212 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting corenews (corenews).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.0%, higher than 90.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
corenews corenews	`= 2.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in index.php in Core CoreNews 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the page parameter, possibly due to a PHP remote file include vulnerability. NOTE: this vulnerability could not be confirmed by source code inspection of CoreNews 2.0.1, which does not appear to use a "page" parameter or variable.

References

attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-March/000602.html
securityreason.com/securityalert/754
web.archive.org/web/20050323212004/www.coreslawn.de
osvdb.org/24080
securityfocus.com/archive/1/427387/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/17067
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25180

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