CVE-2006-5773

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in FreeWebshop 2.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and disclose the installation path via a .. (dot dot) in the action parameter.

Published: 2006-11-06 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2006-5773 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 14.16%, 94th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.69% 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-2006-5773

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2704 exploit_db edb 2006-11-02 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5773

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 2026-04-27 12.47% 14.16% +1.69%
2 2025-09-12 9.88% 12.47% +2.60%
3 2025-06-25 — 9.88% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5773

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-2006-5773

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5773

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5773: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5773

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5773

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
freewebshop freewebshop <= 2.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:freewebshop:freewebshop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5773

cvelogic Threat Intelligence