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CVE-2002-0998

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: yes
• Published: 2002-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cafenews.php for CARE 2002 before beta 1.0.02 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences and null characters in the lang parameter, which is processed by a call to the include function.

Affected products

• Care 2002: 1.0, 1.0.01

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0128.html
• http://www.care2x.com/modul.php?thispage=headlines&m_titel=NEWS&m_item=Headlines&lang=en
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9552.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5218
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0128.html
• http://www.care2x.com/modul.php?thispage=headlines&m_titel=NEWS&m_item=Headlines&lang=en
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9552.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5218

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