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CVE-2002-2427

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The security handler in GoAhead WebServer before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain access to protected web content via "an extra slash in a URL," a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1603.

Affected products

• Goahead Webserver: through 2.1; 2.0

References

• http://data.goahead.com/Software/Webserver/2.1.8/release.htm#security-features-can-be-bypassed-by-adding-an-extra-slash-in-the-url-bug01518
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/124059
• http://data.goahead.com/Software/Webserver/2.1.8/release.htm#security-features-can-be-bypassed-by-adding-an-extra-slash-in-the-url-bug01518
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/124059

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