What is CVE-2006-6017?

CVE-2006-6017 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2006-11-21.

How severe is CVE-2006-6017?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Wordpress

CVE-2006-6017

WordPress before 2.0.5 does not properly store a profile containing a string representation of a serialized object, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that represents a (1) malformed or (2) large serialized object, because the object triggers automatic unserialization for display.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.023 (81.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Wordpress
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_GENTOO, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2006-6017?: CVE-2006-6017 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2006-11-21.
How severe is CVE-2006-6017?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.