# CVE-2006-0421: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Administrators of one WebLogic domain can access other domains on the same instance, leading to unintended privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Jan 2006
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4w2c-mfgm-ff7r

## What is CVE-2006-0421?

CVE-2006-0421 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bea Weblogic Server, published on 25 Jan 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

By design, BEA WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express 7.0 and 6.1, when creating multiple domains from the same WebLogic instance on the same machine, allows administrators of any created domain to access other created domains, which could allow administrators to gain privileges that were not intended.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0421?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bea Weblogic Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-0421?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0421 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-0421 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0421 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Bea Weblogic Server

- [CVE-2008-3257](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3257/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-0417](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0417/): BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 through 7.0 SP7, 8.1 through 8.1 SP5, 9.0, and 9.1, when using the WebLogic Server 6.1 compatibility realm, allows a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2003-0640](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0640/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2001-0098](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0098/): Path traversal in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2000-0681](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-0681/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-0421 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-0421 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bea Weblogic Server, published on 25 Jan 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0421 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Bea Weblogic Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0421/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0421/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0421
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0421
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-0421

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0421/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.