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CVE-2002-0307

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2002-05-31 Modified: 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 Platforms

Avengers News System Avengers News System

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References