CVE-2002-0680

high

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GoAhead Web Server 2.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a URL with an encoded / (%5C) in a .. (dot dot) sequence. NOTE: it is highly likely that this candidate will be REJECTED because it has been reported to be a duplicate of CVE-2001-0228.

References

http://osvdb.org/81099

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102709382714597&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102631742711795&w=2

http://freecode.com/projects/embedthis-goahead-webserver/releases/343539

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0013.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-07-23

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05241