CVE-2006-0869: PEAR Liveuser

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "remember me" feature in liveuser.php in PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) LiveUser 0.16.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine file existence, and possibly delete arbitrary files with short pathnames or possibly read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in the store_id value of a cookie.

Affected products

• PEAR PEAR Liveuser: version 0.3 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.6 only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.7 only; …

Published 2006-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.