CVE-2005-1242 — Directory traversal vulnerability in the third party tool from Bsafe, as used to secure the iSeries AS/400 FTP server, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files, including those from qsys.lib, via ".." sequences in a GET request

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Directory traversal vulnerability in the third party tool from Bsafe, as used to secure the iSeries AS/400 FTP server, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files, including those from qsys.lib, via ".." sequences in a GET request

Published Apr 24, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.81%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the third party tool from Bsafe, as used to secure the iSeries AS/400 FTP server, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files, including those from qsys.lib, via ".." sequences in a GET request.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.81% 0.01815

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

EPSS probability 0.01815

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	1.81% (0.01815)	77.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.81% (0.01815)	75.80th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.34% (0.00345)	54.90th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	1.75% (0.01755)	87.64th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 12, 2024	0.45% (0.00453)	76.01th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.39% (0.00391)	72.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.39% (0.00391)	69.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/396628
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploit
http://www.venera.com/downloads/Canonicalization_problems_in_iSeries_FTP_security.pdf
x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20260
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/396628		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploit
http://www.venera.com/downloads/Canonicalization_problems_in_iSeries_FTP_security.pdf		x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20260		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 24, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Apr 24, 2005

Link CVE-2005-1242

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-1242

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-1242