CVE-2006-5034

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in Paul Smith Computer Services vCAP 1.9.0 Beta and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.

Published: 2006-09-27 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5034 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 9.74%, 93th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.32% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-5034

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28512 exploit_db edb 2009-09-12 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5034

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 2026-05-18 7.42% 9.74% +2.32%
2 2025-05-16 7.15% 7.42% +0.27%
3 2025-03-30 7.15%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5034

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
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:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5034

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5034

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-5034: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5034

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5034

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
paul_smith_computer_services vcap 1.9.0_beta cpe:2.3:a:paul_smith_computer_services:vcap:1.9.0_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5034

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