CVE Catalog

CVE-2002-0307

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter.

Risk Assessment

Attackers may gain access to sensitive files or execute unauthorized scripts, potentially leading to serious security breaches in the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of Avenger's News System to eliminate this vulnerability and implement appropriate safeguards against directory traversal attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter, which reads the target file and attempts to execute the line using Perl's eval function.

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