Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-4246

Title: Usermin Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-4246.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 19, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-4246: Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter, which results in changing root's shell instead of the shell of a specified user.

Impacted Vendors

usermin 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/21968 http://secunia.com/advisories/21981 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1177 http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18574 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3668 http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29010 http://secunia.com/advisories/21968 http://secunia.com/advisories/21981 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1177 http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18574 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3668 http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29010

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-4246 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 19, 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.