| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Dolphin. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file poll.php. The manipulation of the argument dir[inc] leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-4189. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.
Details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Dolphin (Social Network Software) (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code of the file poll.php. The manipulation of the argument dir[inc] with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was disclosed 08/14/2006 by Charles Nelwan a.k.a Cmaster4. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-4189. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:poll.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28363), SecurityFocus (BID 19648†), OSVDB (28505†), Secunia (SA21535†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1016692†). The entries VDB-31825, VDB-84543, VDB-84544 and VDB-84545 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.
Product
Type
Name
License
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.6
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/14/2006 🔍08/14/2006 🔍
08/16/2006 🔍
08/20/2006 🔍
05/08/2016 🔍
05/16/2025 🔍
Sources
Advisory: vupen.com⛔Researcher: Charles Nelwan a.k.a Cmaster4
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2006-4189 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4189
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-84557
X-Force: 28363 - Dolphin dir[inc] parameter file include
SecurityFocus: 19648
Secunia: 21535
OSVDB: 28505 - Dolphin poll.php dir[inc] Parameter Remote File Inclusion
SecurityTracker: 1016692
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 05/08/2016 19:59Updated: 05/16/2025 17:53
Changes: 05/08/2016 19:59 (45), 06/07/2017 14:51 (2), 08/04/2022 02:25 (2), 08/04/2022 02:33 (8), 05/16/2025 17:53 (15)
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