Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to use the server as a proxy for web attacks and host scanning via a direct request to…

Description

Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to use the server as a proxy for web attacks and host scanning via a direct request to the highlight/index.html script.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.7% · top 6.0% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 22892 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 21120 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 30286 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• VU#559616 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 20061115 ZDI-06-042: Verity Ultraseek Request Proxying Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• verity-ultraseek-highlight-info-disclosure(30311) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 1017235 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2006-5819](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-5819.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-5819)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:04 UTC.