CVE-2006-5733

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in error.php in PostNuke 0.763 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the PNSVlang (PNSV lang) cookie, as demonstrated by injecting PHP sequences into an Apache HTTP Server log file, which is then included by error.php.

Published: 2006-11-06 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5733 is rated High Exploit Risk (81/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 11.16%, 93th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +3.34% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2006-5733

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2707 exploit_db edb 2006-11-03 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5733

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 2025-09-13 7.83% 11.16% +3.34%
2 2025-06-25 7.54% 7.83% +0.28%
3 2025-03-30 — 7.54% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5733

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 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:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5733

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5733

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5733: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5733

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5733

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
postnuke_software_foundation postnuke <= 0.763 cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
postnuke_software_foundation postnuke 0.762 cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.762:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5733

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