CVE-2001-1242

critical

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Un-CGI 1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) in an HTML form.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3056

http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi-changes.html

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6846.php

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-07/0349.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-07/0287.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2001-07-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04752