{"id":"CVE-2006-2406","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-2406","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:48:00.470Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in bb_lib/abbc.css.php in Unclassified NewsBoard (UNB) 1.5.3-d and possibly earlier versions, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files via ..","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in bb_lib/abbc.css.php in Unclassified NewsBoard (UNB) 1.5.3-d and possibly earlier versions, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences and a trailing null byte (%00) in the design_path parameter.  NOTE: this is closely related, but a different vulnerability than the ABBC[Config][smileset] parameter.","published":"2006-05-16T10:02:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:24:57.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.6,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["unclassified newsboard/unclassified newsboard"],"epss":{"score":0.0231,"percentile":0.8326,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2006-05-11","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":1777,"kind":"exploit","title":"Unclassified NewsBoard 1.6.1 patch 1 - Local File Inclusion","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1777","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/1777.php","file":"exploits/php/webapps/1777.php","published":"2006-05-11","added":"2006-05-10","updated":"2016-07-20","author":"rgod","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-25494","CVE-2006-2406","CVE-2006-2405"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.comunb.stable.1.6.1.full.zip","screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is low and EPSS is 2.3%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-May/000769.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://newsboard.unclassified.de/forum/post/6499","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/25494","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-May/000769.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://newsboard.unclassified.de/forum/post/6499","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/25494","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2406","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}