CVE-2002-1178

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the CGIServlet for Jetty HTTP server before 4.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via ..\ (dot-dot backslash) sequences in an HTTP request to the cgi-bin directory.

Affected products

Jetty Http Server: through 4.1.0

References

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jetty-announce/message/45
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103358725813039&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10246.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5852
http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-02-0011.txt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jetty-announce/message/45
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103358725813039&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10246.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5852
http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-02-0011.txt

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