Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0869

Title: Pear Pear Liveuser Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-0869

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Feb 23, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.92%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-0869: Directory traversal vulnerability in the "remember me" feature in liveuser.php in PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) LiveUser 0.16.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine file existence, and possibly delete arbitrary files with short pathnames or possibly read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in the store_id value of a cookie.

Impacted Vendors

pear 1

Reference Links

http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser/download/ http://securityreason.com/securityalert/466 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015659 http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00103-02212006 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425711/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16761 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0697 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24852 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24853 http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser/download/ http://securityreason.com/securityalert/466 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015659 http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00103-02212006 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425711/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16761 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0697 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24852 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24853

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-0869 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43834

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 23, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.