CVE-2002-0307

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-05-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter, which reads the target file and attempts to execute the line using Perl's eval function.

Affected products

Avengers News System: 2.01, 2.11

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101430868616112&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4147
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101430868616112&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4147

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