PT-2006-7260 · Inktomi · Inktomi Search

Published 2006-12-20 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2006-6658

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Inktomi Search version 4.1.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests with missing parameters to API endpoints such as "help/header.html", "thesaurus.html", and "topics.html". These requests can leak the installation path in the resulting error message.

Recommendations For Inktomi Search version 4.1.4, consider restricting access to the affected API endpoints "help/header.html", "thesaurus.html", and "topics.html" to minimize the risk of exploitation. Additionally, ensure that all parameters are properly validated and provided in requests to these endpoints. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6658

Affected Products

Inktomi Search

References · 3

• 🔥 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017242 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6658 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6658 · Note