{"id":"CVE-2006-6679","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-6679","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:34.722Z","title":"Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.4 relies on the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header when verifying a client's status on an IP address ACL, which allows remote attackers to gain unauthorized access by spoofing this header.","description":"Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.4 relies on the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header when verifying a client's status on an IP address ACL, which allows remote attackers to gain unauthorized access by spoofing this header.","published":"2006-12-21T19:28:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:33:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["chetcpasswd project/chetcpasswd"],"epss":{"score":0.0211,"percentile":0.81666,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=116371297325564&w=2","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22967","tags":["Broken Link","Permissions Required","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=68912&release_id=466649","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/30544","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21102","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30451","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=116371297325564&w=2","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22967","tags":["Broken Link","Permissions Required","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=68912&release_id=466649","tags":["Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/30544","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21102","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30451","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6679","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."}