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CVE-2006-1015

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1015 describes an argument injection vulnerability affecting PHP applications (versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x) when interacting with sendmail. Specifically, if an application accepts remote input for the 'additional_parameters' argument of the mail function, attackers can leverage sendmail's -C and -X arguments to read and create arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity, allowing for partial confidentiality and integrity impact without authentication. While not actively exploited in the KEV catalog or Hot List, exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27334 · Feb 28, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1212 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-1015

CVE-2006-1015

References

secunia.com / advisories/19979
securityreason.com / securityalert/517
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/05-05-2006.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426497/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16878