CVE-2005-3097 — Directory traversal vulnerability in Avi Alkalay contribute.cgi (aka contribute.pl), dated 16 Jun 2002, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the contribdir variable

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Directory traversal vulnerability in Avi Alkalay contribute.cgi (aka contribute.pl), dated 16 Jun 2002, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the contribdir variable

Published Sep 28, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.31%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Avi Alkalay contribute.cgi (aka contribute.pl), dated 16 Jun 2002, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the contribdir variable.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.31% 0.01306

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

EPSS probability 0.01306

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.31% (0.01306)	69.49th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.31% (0.01306)	66.71th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.46% (0.00459)	61.97th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.23% (0.00226)	61.75th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.16% (0.00163)	52.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.14% (0.00138)	48.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.13% (0.00125)	45.74th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.23% (0.00230)	59.29th	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 (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.cirt.net/advisories/alkalay.shtml
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/19522
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.cirt.net/advisories/alkalay.shtml		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/19522		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 28, 2005

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Sep 28, 2005

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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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