CVE-2006-0887

critical

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in sessions.inc in PHP Base Library (PHPLib) before 7.4a, when index.php3 from the PHPLib distribution is available on the server, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by including a base64-encoded representation of the code in a cookie. NOTE: this description was significantly updated on 20060605 to reflect new details after an initial vague advisory.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24873

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0720

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16801

http://www.osvdb.org/23466

http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00107-03052006

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=31885&release_id=396091

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016123

http://secunia.com/advisories/16902

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-02-25

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.09221