CVE-2000-0039

Search Intranet vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

5.9%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to read files above the document root via a .. (dot dot) in the query.cgi CGI program.

Affected vendor

Altavista

Affected product

Search Intranet

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

1999-12-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Altavista Search Intranet is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2000-0039.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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