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CVE-2000-0039

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-12-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to read files above the document root via a .. (dot dot) in the query.cgi CGI program.

Affected products

• Altavista Search Intranet: 2.0b, 2.3a

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/15
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/896
• http://www.osvdb.org/15
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/896

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