Vulnerability CVE-2006-4246
Published: 2006-09-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter, which results in changing root's shell instead of the shell of a specified user.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.6/10
4.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Usermin -> Usermin 

 References:
http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18574
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1177
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894
http://secunia.com/advisories/21981
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29010
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3668
http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin
http://secunia.com/advisories/21968
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