CVE-2006-4246: Usermin

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter, which results in changing root's shell instead of the shell of a specified user.

Affected products

• Usermin Usermin: up to and including 1.210; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.8 only; …

Published 2006-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.