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CVE-2018-16716

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

A path traversal vulnerability exists in viewcgi.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox, which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e., significant information disclosure) or file deletion via the nph-viewgif.cgi query string.

Affected products

• NIH Ncbi Toolbox: from 2.0.7 through 2.2.26

References

• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16716.md
• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16716.md

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