CVE-2006-4994 (GCVE-0-2006-4994)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-09-26 01:43 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:32
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Summary
Multiple unquoted Windows search path vulnerabilities in Apache Friends XAMPP 1.5.2 might allow local users to gain privileges via a malicious program file in %SYSTEMDRIVE%, which is run when XAMPP attempts to execute (1) FileZillaServer.exe, (2) mysqld-nt.exe, (3) Perl.exe, or (4) xamppcontrol.exe with an unquoted "Program Files" pathname.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2006-05-21 00:00
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