Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.88% · top 41% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 21968 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 21981 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 18574 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• usermin-shell-dos(29010) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2006-3668 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-1177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-4246](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-4246.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-4246)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:06 UTC.