CVE-2006-5970 — Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests with (1) a null ("%00") terminated url parameter to help/urlstatusgo.html; or missing parameters to (2) help/header.html, (3) help/footer.html, (4) spell.html, (5) coreforma.html, (6) daterange.html, (7) hits.html, (8) hitsnavbottom.html, (9) indexform.html, (10) indexforma.html, (11) languages.html, (12) nohits.html, (13) onehit1.html, (14) onehit2.html, (15) query.html, (16) queryform0.html, (17) queryform0a.html, (18) queryform1.html, (19) queryform1a.html, (20) queryform2.html, (21) queryform2a.html, (22) quicklinks.html, (23) relatedtopics.html, (24) signin.html, (25) subtopics.html, (26) thesaurus.html, (27) topics.html, (28) hitspagebar.html, (29) highlight/highlight.html, (30) highlight/highlight_one.html, and (31) highlight/topnav.html, which leaks the installation path in the resulting error message

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Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests with (1) a null ("%00") terminated url parameter to help/urlstatusgo.html; or missing parameters to (2) help/header.html, (3) help/footer.html, (4) spell.html, (5) coreforma.html, (6) daterange.html, (7) hits.html, (8) hitsnavbottom.html, (9) indexform.html, (10) indexforma.html, (11) languages.html, (12) nohits.html, (13) onehit1.html, (14) onehit2.html, (15) query.html, (16) queryform0.html, (17) queryform0a.html, (18) queryform1.html, (19) queryform1a.html, (20) queryform2.html, (21) queryform2a.html, (22) quicklinks.html, (23) relatedtopics.html, (24) signin.html, (25) subtopics.html, (26) thesaurus.html, (27) topics.html, (28) hitspagebar.html, (29) highlight/highlight.html, (30) highlight/highlight_one.html, and (31) highlight/topnav.html, which leaks the installation path in the resulting error message

Published Nov 18, 2006

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.79%

Description

Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests with (1) a null ("%00") terminated url parameter to help/urlstatusgo.html; or missing parameters to (2) help/header.html, (3) help/footer.html, (4) spell.html, (5) coreforma.html, (6) daterange.html, (7) hits.html, (8) hitsnavbottom.html, (9) indexform.html, (10) indexforma.html, (11) languages.html, (12) nohits.html, (13) onehit1.html, (14) onehit2.html, (15) query.html, (16) queryform0.html, (17) queryform0a.html, (18) queryform1.html, (19) queryform1a.html, (20) queryform2.html, (21) queryform2a.html, (22) quicklinks.html, (23) relatedtopics.html, (24) signin.html, (25) subtopics.html, (26) thesaurus.html, (27) topics.html, (28) hitspagebar.html, (29) highlight/highlight.html, (30) highlight/highlight_one.html, and (31) highlight/topnav.html, which leaks the installation path in the resulting error message.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.79% 0.01790

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01790

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 (16 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.79% (0.01790)	77.59th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.72% (0.01721)	74.45th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.58% (0.00583)	67.08th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.17% (0.01165)	85.57th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 13, 2024	1.17% (0.01165)	83.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 29, 2023	1.54% (0.01538)	85.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 21, 2023	1.25% (0.01249)	83.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 14, 2023	1.19% (0.01186)	83.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 7, 2023	1.03% (0.01034)	81.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 21, 2023	0.98% (0.00982)	81.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 14, 2023	0.74% (0.00743)	77.96th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.71% (0.00706)	77.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.41% (0.01408)	72.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 2, 2023	1.41% (0.01408)	72.88th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.41% (0.01408)	70.87th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.41% (0.01408)	49.94th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (8)

http://secunia.com/advisories/22892
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017235
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/30287
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/30288
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30314
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/22892		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017235		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/30287		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/30288		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30314		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 18, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 17, 2006

Link CVE-2006-5970

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-5970

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-5970