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CVE-2006-0981
Directory traversal vulnerability in e-merge WinAce 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via…
Medium4.0EPSS 1.9%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in e-merge WinAce 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via certain crafted pathnames in a (1) zip or (2) tar archive.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 16800 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23464 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.hamid.ir/security/winace.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19013 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0730 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- winace-rar-tar-directory-traversal(24902) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060224 WinAce Archiver v2.6 Directory traversal (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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