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.
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.
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)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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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
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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
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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 |
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |