CVE-2001-1335 — Directory traversal vulnerability in CesarFTP 0.98b and earlier allows remote authenticated users (such as anonymous) to read arbitrary files via a GET with a filename that contains a ...%5c (modified dot dot)

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Directory traversal vulnerability in CesarFTP 0.98b and earlier allows remote authenticated users (such as anonymous) to read arbitrary files via a GET with a filename that contains a ...%5c (modified dot dot)

Published May 3, 2002

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 8.19%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in CesarFTP 0.98b and earlier allows remote authenticated users (such as anonymous) to read arbitrary files via a GET with a filename that contains a ...%5c (modified dot dot).

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

8.19% 0.08190

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

EPSS probability 0.08190

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	8.19% (0.08190)	94.70th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	8.19% (0.08190)	94.13th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	3.45% (0.03447)	86.40th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	5.87% (0.05874)	83.87th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	3.45% (0.03447)	86.71th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	2.19% (0.02189)	89.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 2, 2024	2.19% (0.02189)	89.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	4.29% (0.04287)	90.98th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.19% (0.04187)	87.39th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.19% (0.04187)	86.11th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.19% (0.04187)	69.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0252.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6606.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2786
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0252.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6606.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2786		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 3, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2002

Link CVE-2001-1335

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-1335

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-1335