CVE-2005-4690 — Six Apart Movable Type 3.16 allows local users with blog-creation privileges to create or overwrite arbitrary files of certain types (such as HTML and image files) by selecting an arbitrary directory as a blog's top-level directory

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Six Apart Movable Type 3.16 allows local users with blog-creation privileges to create or overwrite arbitrary files of certain types (such as HTML and image files) by selecting an arbitrary directory as a blog's top-level directory

Published Feb 1, 2006

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.33%

Description

Six Apart Movable Type 3.16 allows local users with blog-creation privileges to create or overwrite arbitrary files of certain types (such as HTML and image files) by selecting an arbitrary directory as a blog's top-level directory. NOTE: this issue can be used in conjunction with CVE-2005-3102 to create or overwrite arbitrary files of all types.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.33% 0.00329

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00329

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.33% (0.00329)	23.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.33% (0.00330)	24.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.32th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0091.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16899
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15302
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0091.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16899		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15302		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 1, 2006

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jan 31, 2006

Link CVE-2005-4690

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-4690

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-4690