CVE-2006-5846

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in FreeWebshop 2.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the page parameter, a different vector than CVE-2006-5773.

Published: 2006-11-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5846 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 18.26%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.00% 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-2006-5846

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28942 exploit_db edb 2006-11-08 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5846

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 2026-03-25 16.25% 18.26% +2.00%
2 2025-06-29 15.73% 16.25% +0.52%
3 2025-03-30 15.73%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5846

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5846

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5846

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-5846: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5846

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5846

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
freewebshop freewebshop <= 2.2.2 cpe:2.3:a:freewebshop:freewebshop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5846

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