CVE-2006-6878

Exp

admin/uploads.php in PHP-Update 2.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges by setting the rights[7] parameter to 1 during a login action.

Published: 2006-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-6878 is rated High Exploit Risk (76.4/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.69%, 91th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2006-6878

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
3020 exploit_db edb 2006-12-26 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6878

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 7.21% 6.69% -0.52%
2 2025-09-22 3.93% 7.21% +3.28%
3 2025-08-24 3.93%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6878

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-2006-6878

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6878

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-6878: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6878

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6878

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
php-update php-update <= 2.7 cpe:2.3:a:php-update:php-update:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6878

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