CVE-2001-0892 — Acme Thttpd Secure Webserver before 2.22, with the chroot option enabled, allows remote attackers to view sensitive files under the document root (such as .htpasswd) via a GET request with a trailing /

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MEDIUM

Acme Thttpd Secure Webserver before 2.22, with the chroot option enabled, allows remote attackers to view sensitive files under the document root (such as .htpasswd) via a GET request with a trailing /

Published Feb 2, 2002

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.86%

Description

Acme Thttpd Secure Webserver before 2.22, with the chroot option enabled, allows remote attackers to view sensitive files under the document root (such as .htpasswd) via a GET request with a trailing /.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.86% 0.01859

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01859

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.86% (0.01859)	78.45th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.86% (0.01859)	76.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.45% (0.00447)	61.39th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.33% (0.00329)	71.85th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.33% (0.00329)	70.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.33% (0.00329)	66.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-668

References (2)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100568999726036&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party Advisory
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease Notes

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100568999726036&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party Advisory
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/		x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease Notes

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 2, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jan 31, 2002

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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