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CVE-2006-5970 Details

Description

Verity Ultraseek before 5.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests with (1) a null ("%00") terminated url parameter to help/urlstatusgo.html; or missing parameters to (2) help/header.html, (3) help/footer.html, (4) spell.html, (5) coreforma.html, (6) daterange.html, (7) hits.html, (8) hitsnavbottom.html, (9) indexform.html, (10) indexforma.html, (11) languages.html, (12) nohits.html, (13) onehit1.html, (14) onehit2.html, (15) query.html, (16) queryform0.html, (17) queryform0a.html, (18) queryform1.html, (19) queryform1a.html, (20) queryform2.html, (21) queryform2a.html, (22) quicklinks.html, (23) relatedtopics.html, (24) signin.html, (25) subtopics.html, (26) thesaurus.html, (27) topics.html, (28) hitspagebar.html, (29) highlight/highlight.html, (30) highlight/highlight_one.html, and (31) highlight/topnav.html, which leaks the installation path in the resulting error message.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22892	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017235	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30314	CVE
http://www.osvdb.org/30287	CVE
http://www.osvdb.org/30288	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded	CVE
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt	CVE
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22892	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017235	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30314	[email protected]
http://www.osvdb.org/30287	[email protected]
http://www.osvdb.org/30288	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451847/100/0/threaded	[email protected]
http://www.ultraseek.com/support/docs/RELNOTES.txt	[email protected]
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-042.html	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
verity ultraseek	<= 5.6
CPE cpe:2.3:a:verity:ultraseek:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 17, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 20, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 20, 2006	Initial Analysis	[email protected]