Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-4758

Title: Phpbb Group Phpbb

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-4758.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 13, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-4758: phpBB 2.0.21 does not properly handle pathnames ending in %00, which allows remote authenticated administrative users to upload arbitrary files, as demonstrated by a query to admin/admin_board.php with an avatar_path parameter ending in .php%00.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388120 http://secunia.com/advisories/22188 http://secunia.com/advisories/28871 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1488 http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=489624 http://www.security.nnov.ru/Odocument221.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445788/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20347 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21806 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28884 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388120 http://secunia.com/advisories/22188 http://secunia.com/advisories/28871 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1488 http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=489624 http://www.security.nnov.ru/Odocument221.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445788/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20347 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21806 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28884

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-4758 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 13, 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:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.