CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0940

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
4.27%

91th percentile - higher than 91% of all known CVEs

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in Metertek pagelog.cgi allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack on the "name" or "display" parameter.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can read sensitive files from the system, potentially leading to information disclosure.

Recommendation

Update Metertek pagelog.cgi to a non-vulnerable version or apply input filtering that eliminates .. sequences in parameters.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Directory traversal vulnerability in Metertek pagelog.cgi allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack on the "name" or "display" parameter.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS