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CVE-2006-4681

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4681 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Redirect.bat within IBM Director versions prior to 5.10. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files on the affected system by manipulating the 'file' parameter with a ".. (dot dot)" sequence. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), the attack is network-based and low complexity, leading to potential information disclosure. While not actively exploited in the wild or on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2320 · Sep 7, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0358 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ftp.software.ibm.com / pc/pccbbs/pc_servers_pdf/dir5.10_docs_relnotes.pdf
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/21802
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
ExploitPatch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28836
exploit-db.com / exploits/2320
securityfocus.com / bid/19898
ExploitPatch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3532