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Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .

Published May 3, 2002

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter, which reads the target file and attempts to execute the line using Perl's eval function.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 3, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved May 1, 2002
Link CVE-2002-0307
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2002-0307
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2002-0307