CVE-2000-1176

Yabb vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

5.7%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in YaBB search.pl CGI script allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack in the "catsearch" form field.

Affected vendor

Yabb

Affected product

Yabb

CVSS vector

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

Published

2001-01-09

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, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.7% 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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