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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2443

Original release date:05/18/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The Debian package of knowledgetree 2.0.7 creates environment.php with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information such as the username and password for the KnowledgeTree database.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.6 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348306
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348306

Vulnerable software and versions

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* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2443