Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3392

Title: Webmin Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-3392

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 06, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

79.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3392: Webmin before 1.290 and Usermin before 1.220 calls the simplify_path function before decoding HTML, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, as demonstrated using "..%01" sequences, which bypass the removal of "../" sequences before bytes such as "%01" are removed from the filename. NOTE: This is a different issue than CVE-2006-3274.

Impacted Vendors

webmin 1

usermin 1

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-July/000923.html http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000912.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20892 http://secunia.com/advisories/21105 http://secunia.com/advisories/21365 http://secunia.com/advisories/22556 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-11.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999601 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:125 http://www.osvdb.org/26772 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439653/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440125/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440466/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440493/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18744 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2612 http://www.webmin.com/changes.html http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-July/000923.html http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000912.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20892 http://secunia.com/advisories/21105 http://secunia.com/advisories/21365 http://secunia.com/advisories/22556 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-11.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1199 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999601 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:125 http://www.osvdb.org/26772 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439653/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440125/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440466/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440493/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18744 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2612 http://www.webmin.com/changes.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3392 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1997

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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2017

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June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 06, 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:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.