CVE-2006-6629 — lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros.pl, (2) PG.pl, or (3) IO.pl

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lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros.pl, (2) PG.pl, or (3) IO.pl

Published Dec 18, 2006

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.23%

Description

lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros.pl, (2) PG.pl, or (3) IO.pl.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.23% 0.01230

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

EPSS probability 0.01230

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 (13 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.23% (0.01230)	67.82th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.13% (0.01126)	61.96th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.36% (0.00365)	56.38th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.37% (0.00366)	73.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 12, 2024	0.37% (0.00366)	72.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.40% (0.00405)	73.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 22, 2023	0.40% (0.00405)	70.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 22, 2023	0.36% (0.00356)	67.92th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.30% (0.00299)	64.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21614
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5026
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21614		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5026		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 18, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 17, 2006

Link CVE-2006-6629

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-6629

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-6629