CVE-2002-1986

Liteserve vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

6.7%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Perception LiteServe 2.0 through 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to obtain the source code of CGI scripts via an HTTP request with a trailing dot (".").

Affected vendor

Perception

Affected product

Liteserve

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-12-31

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 6.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Perception Liteserve is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-1986.
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