CVE-2006-5971: Verity Ultraseek

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in admin/logfile.txt in Verity Ultraseek before 5.6.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the name variable.

Affected products

• Verity Ultraseek: up to and including 5.6.2

Published 2006-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.