CVE-2006-2770

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2006-2770 · Published 02/06/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-2770 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting pppblog (pppblog).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pppblog pppblog	`≤ 0.3.8`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in randompic.php in pppBLOG 0.3.8 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in an index of the "file" array parameter, as demonstrated by file[0].

References

retrogod.altervista.org/pppblog_038_xpl.html · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/20375 · Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com/securityalert/1015
securitytracker.com/id
securityfocus.com/archive/1/435406/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/18189 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2085
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26969

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