CVE-2006-6579 (GCVE-0-2006-6579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-15 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:33
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454268/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2006-12-13 00:00
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