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CVE-2006-2499

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2499 describes a critical SQL injection vulnerability in CodeAvalanche News (CANews) version 1.2, specifically within the default.asp component. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by manipulating the password field. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability presents a high risk due to its low attack complexity and potential for partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog or showing active exploitation, a public exploit is available on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 88/100, indicating its significant potential impact despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xfairguy:codeavalanche_news:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27898 · May 19, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

colander.altervista.org / advisory/CANews.txt
ExploitVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/20171
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26586
osvdb.org / 25652
securityfocus.com / archive/1/434730/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/18031
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1870