CVE-2006-5963

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2006-5963 · Published 19/01/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-5963 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting pentasuite-pro (pentaware), pentazip (pentaware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pentasuite-pro pentaware	`= 8.5.1.221`	No fix yet
pentazip pentaware	`= 8.5.1.190`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in PentaZip 8.5.1.190 and PentaSuite-PRO 8.5.1.221 allows user-assisted remote attackers to extract files to arbitrary pathnames via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a filename.

References

osvdb.org/32864
secunia.com/advisories/21458 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-72/advisory · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/22104
vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0235
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31581

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