# CVE-2006-6641: Auth bypass in n/a

> Attackers can hijack sessions and credentials when multiple portal servers share a data store, leading to unauthorized access and privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Dec 2006
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4hvj-64cx-35mp

## What is CVE-2006-6641?

CVE-2006-6641 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Dec 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in CA CleverPath Portal before maintenance version 4.71.001_179_060830, as used in multiple products including BrightStor Portal r11.1, CleverPath Aion BPM r10 through r10.2, eTrust Security Command Center r1 and r8, and Unicenter, does not properly handle when multiple Portal servers are started at the same time and share the same data store, which might cause a Portal user to inherit the session and credentials of a user who is on another Portal server.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6641?

It affects 11 products.


Products: Arcserve Brightstor, Broadcom Cleverpath Portal, Cleverpath Aion Bpm, Cleverpath Portal, Etrust Security Command Center, Unicenter Asset and Portfolio Management, Unicenter Database Command Center, Unicenter Database Management Portal, Unicenter Enterprise Job Manager, Unicenter Management Portal, Unicenter Workload Control Center.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-6641?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6641 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-6641 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-6641 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-6641 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Dec 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. 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-2006-6641/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-6641/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6641
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6641
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-6641

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-6641/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.