Unscored CVE-1999-1177 EUVD-1999-1158GHSA-v755-q23g-3hrx

Directory traversal vulnerability in nph-publish before 1.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the …

Published Mar 9, 2002 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in nph-publish before 1.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the pathname for an upload operation.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2055 vdb-entry
http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/tools/CGI_scripts/server_publish/nph-publish
http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf4.html