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CVE-1999-1177

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1999-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Lincoln D. Stein Nph-Publish: through 1.2

References

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

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