CVE-2006-3426: Lumension Patchlink Update Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in (a) PatchLink Update Server (PLUS) before 6.1 P1 and 6.2.x before 6.2 SR1 P1 and (b) Novell ZENworks 6.2 SR1 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and directories via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the (1) action, (2) agentid, or (3) index parameters to dagent/nwupload.asp, which are used as pathname components.

Affected products

• Lumension Patchlink Update Server: version 6.1 only; version 6.2.0.181 only; version 6.2.0.189 only
• Novell Zenworks: up to and including 6.2

Published 2006-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.