CVE-2006-6888 - P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the administrative account name and password hash via a direct request for db/user.dat

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P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the administrative account name and password hash via a direct request for db/user.dat

Published Jan 5, 2007

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.43%

Description

P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the administrative account name and password hash via a direct request for db/user.dat.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31197
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3054
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31197		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3054		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 5, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 5, 2007

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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