CVE-2006-6579

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
0.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 60% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: December 15, 2006 (7089 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Windows XP has weak permissions (FILE_WRITE_DATA and FILE_READ_DATA for Everyone) for %WINDIR%\pchealth\ERRORREP\QHEADLES, which allows local users to write and read files in this folder, as demonstrated by an ASP shell that has write access by IWAM_machine and read access by IUSR_Machine.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information servermicrosoft internet information services

References

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