CVE-2006-0202

Dave Nielsen and Patrick Breitenbach PayPal Web Services (aka PHP Toolkit) 0.50 and possibly earlier has (1) world-readable permissions for ipn/logs/ipn_success.txt, which allows local users to view sensitive information (payment data), and (2) world-writable permissions for ipn/logs, which allows local users to delete or replace payment data.

Published: 2006-01-13 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-0202 is rated Low Risk (19.9/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-0202

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.06% +0.02%
2 2023-03-07 1.03% 0.04% -0.99%
3 2022-02-04 — 1.03% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-0202

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.6 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-0202

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-0202

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
paypal php_toolkit <= 0.50 cpe:2.3:a:paypal:php_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-0202

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