CVE-2006-6965

CRLF injection vulnerability in lib/exe/fetch.php in DokuWiki 2006-03-09e, and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in the media parameter. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for XSS attacks.

Published: 2007-01-29 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-6965 is rated Moderate Risk (41.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.66%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6965

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 2025-09-17 0.59% 0.66% +0.07%
2 2025-03-30 0.47% 0.59% +0.12%
3 2025-03-29 0.47%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6965

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6965

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6965

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2006-6965 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6965
gentoo low CVE-2006-6965: 1 GLSA(s) (200704-08), 1 atom(s) (www-apps/dokuwiki); latest impact low. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-6965
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-6965 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 9 status rows across 9 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, upstream): not-affected 6, ignored 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-6965

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6965

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
andreas_gohr dokuwiki release_2006-03-09 cpe:2.3:a:andreas_gohr:dokuwiki:release_2006-03-09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
andreas_gohr dokuwiki release_2006-03-09e cpe:2.3:a:andreas_gohr:dokuwiki:release_2006-03-09e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6965

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