5
CVSSv2

CVE-2001-0123

Published: 12/03/2001 Updated: 10/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in eXtropia bbs_forum.cgi 1.0 allows remote malicious users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack on the file parameter.

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extropia bbs forum.cgi 1.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/2177/info bbs_forumcgi is a popular Perl cgi script from eXtropiacom It supports the creation and maintenance of web-based threaded discussion forums Version 10 of bbs_forumcgi fails to properly validate user-supplied, URL-encoded input to the read environment variable Maliciously-formed URLs submit ...