PT-1999-1603 · Nph Publish · Nph Publish

Published 1999-12-31 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-1999-1177

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nph-publish versions prior to 1.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the pathname for an upload operation. This is due to a directory traversal vulnerability.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2, update to version 1.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting upload operations to prevent exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1177

Affected Products

Nph Publish

References · 4

• http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/tools/CGI_scripts/server_publish/nph-publish · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1177 · Security Note
• http://w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf4.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2055 · Note